Sinai EM Journal Club

In the growing backlog of articles and journal club presentations I’d like to write up, I came across this publication which was presented a few months back — Does End-tidal Carbon Dioxide Monitoring Detect Respiratory Events Prior to Current Sedation Monitoring Practices? from Burton, Harrah, Germann and Dillon in Academic Emergency Medicine 2006; 13:500-504. My notes on the presentation have long since disappeared (I believe it was given by… Tim?) but my interest in the topic was rekindled after a recent M+M.

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This month’s journal club presentation began with what I believe was a discussion of blood clots in Cro-Mags before touching upon late 19th century versions of CPR, the landmark closed-chest cardiac massage paper, and eventually, a comparison of ROSC (return of spontaneous circulation) in real patients vs. as seen on television. Chad then led the group in a discussion of a new meta-analysis by Xin Li et al appearing in a recent issue of Resuscitation (2006: Vol 70, pp31-36) on the topic of CPR with and without thrombolytics.

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