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Don't give up hope, he ends up surviving for a few weeks.

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Bushy,

I'm sorry to be dense and spoil the antipodean in-joke but I was wondering something: if you are already ALS, what's the benefit of a MICA? What do they do differently?

Carl.

ALS here is somewhat like an EMT-I, MICA have all the bells and whistles, epecifically the anti-arrhythmic drugs/therapy and airway management.

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Arrest scenario- Well, it depends upon whether it's a shock or no-shock situation. I don't think we need to go into the exact specifics here, I'm sure we are all familiar with the ERC (or whatever the governing body is in Aussieland) guidelines. I think there should be some attention to the 4 H and T's here though.

Was the arrest run any differently because of the patient's history?

WM

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You need to be careful with oxygen admin on this one, it is a good idea to find out what his normal sat is, as it may be 70-80%. You can kill him with too much oxygen. He needs to go to the hospital that does transplants or atleast has a good cardiac program (not the local band-aid ER with an oncall doc).

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You need to be careful with oxygen admin on this one, it is a good idea to find out what his normal sat is, as it may be 70-80%. You can kill him with too much oxygen. He needs to go to the hospital that does transplants or atleast has a good cardiac program (not the local band-aid ER with an oncall doc).

Sorry crotch, i dont follow, could you elaborate on why we should be careful with the 02, im assuming its hypoxic drive?

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Which is why I suggested titrating

Yeah, maybe i should have read back thorugh the posts.

Is this such a big deal for ambo's to worry about? We certainly arn't to fussed with COPD'ers so why would this be different?

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You need to be careful with oxygen admin on this one, it is a good idea to find out what his normal sat is, as it may be 70-80%. You can kill him with too much oxygen. He needs to go to the hospital that does transplants or atleast has a good cardiac program (not the local band-aid ER with an oncall doc).

I'm not following your thought process on this, care to explain?

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I will have to do some research and come back to you. I just remember we had two pediatric patients in our area with this syndrome, that we transported about once a month, and the Nurses at the pediatric hospital always made a big deal about not getting their sats up to the "normal" level when we called report, because most EMS folks would slap someone with a 70% O2 sat on high flow.


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