
Pass ACLS Tip of the Day
Like a daily audio flash card. This podcast is intended to aid any medical professional preparing for an Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) class. Each one-to-nine minute Flash Briefing-style episode covers one of the skills needed to recognize a stroke or cardiac emergency and work as a
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Obtaining a Medical History
A patient’s medical history will help us identify th...
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Mar 21 2023 5m
Medication Review: Magnesium and Procainamide
Although magnesium can be used in the treatment of o...
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Mar 20 2023 5m
H&T Reversible Causes of Cardiac Arrest: Hypovolemia
When a patient loses excessive amounts of fluids, we...
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Mar 17 2023 4m
Medication Review: Morphine
MONA is the acronym sometimes used to help us rememb...
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Mar 16 2023 4m
Maintaining a Chest Compression Fraction (CCF) Above 80%
Even good CPR is far less efficient at circulating b...
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Mar 15 2023 5m
Medication Review: Epinephrine and Dopamine
Epinephrine and Dopamine are adrenergic agonist used...
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Mar 14 2023 6m
Delivering Artificial Ventilations
Providing rescue breathing to apneic patients with a...
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Mar 13 2023 6m
H&T Reversible Causes of Cardiac Arrest: Hypothermia
Hypothermic patients aren't dead until they are warm...
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Mar 10 2023 4m
Medication Review: Calcium Channel Blockers
Calcium is one of the ions that move across the cell...
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Mar 9 2023 4m
Review of ACLS's Post-Cardiac Arrest Care Algorithm
While running a code, the thing we hope for is Retur...
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Mar 8 2023 6m
Medication Review: Nitroglycerine
Nitroglycerine is vasodilator that affects periphera...
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Mar 7 2023 4m
Atrial Fibrillation or Flutter with RVR
In atrial fibrillation (A-Fib) and atrial flutter (A...
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Mar 6 2023 5m
Tablets & Toxins: An H&T Reversible Cause of Cardiac Arrest
As an ACLS provider you do not need to be familiar w...
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Mar 3 2023 4m
When To Use Which ACLS Algorithm
The ACLS algorithms are designed to make it easier t...
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Mar 2 2023 9m
Beta Blocker Use in ACLS Algorithms
Beta blocking medications attach to Beta receptors t...
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Mar 1 2023 4m
Advanced Airways
This episode we are reviewing the use of advanced ai...
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Feb 28 2023 6m
Antiarrhythmic Use After ROSC
Our primary focus immediately following return of sp...
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Feb 27 2023 5m
Hydrogen Ions: An H&T Reversible Cause of Cardiac Arrest
Hydrogen ions is on one of the Hs in ACLS's H&T ...
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Feb 24 2023 4m
Adult Cardiac Arrest Algorithm Code Flow
Being the team leader during a cardiac arrest is cha...
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Feb 23 2023 8m
Medication Review: Aspirin
For patients exhibiting symptoms consistent with myo...
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Feb 22 2023 4m
Review of First & Third Degree AV Blocks
To pass ACLS, you will need to be able to identify c...
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Feb 21 2023 7m
Lidocaine & Amiodarone
In the Adult Cardiac Arrest algorithm, we should adm...
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Feb 20 2023 6m
Nasopharyngeal Airway (NPA) Review
The tongue is the most common airway obstruction in ...
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Feb 17 2023 5m
H&T Reversible Cause of Cardiac Arrest: Cardiac Tamponade
When blood, or other fluids, accumulate in the sac a...
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Feb 16 2023 5m
Megacode Teammates & the Use of Quick Reference Cards
Two things have changed in recent years to aid stude...
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Feb 15 2023 4m