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Anesthesia Update

The document summarizes recent updates to 2015 ACLS guidelines, including that chest compressions should be delivered at a rate of 100-120 per minute at a depth of 2 to 2.4 inches, with one breath delivered every 6 seconds for advanced airway. Vasopressin is no longer recommended for cardiac arrest. Extracorporeal CPR may be considered as an alternative to conventional CPR. The document also lists drugs commonly used in ACLS and their indications.

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Anesthesia Update

The document summarizes recent updates to 2015 ACLS guidelines, including that chest compressions should be delivered at a rate of 100-120 per minute at a depth of 2 to 2.4 inches, with one breath delivered every 6 seconds for advanced airway. Vasopressin is no longer recommended for cardiac arrest. Extracorporeal CPR may be considered as an alternative to conventional CPR. The document also lists drugs commonly used in ACLS and their indications.

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Anesthesia

Updates
RECENT TOPICS OF 2017-18 EXAMS

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ACLS GUIDELINES
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2015 ACLS Guidelines: Extract
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(Advance cardiac life support)
‰‰ Chest compression rate should be at the rate of 100-120/min instead of at least 100/min.
‰‰ Depth of compression should be 2 inch but not more than 2.4”.
‰‰ Deliver 1 breath every 6 seconds (i.e. 10 breaths/min.) while advanced airway in place (instead of 1 breath every 6 to 8 seconds previously). i
‰‰ Vasopressin in high dose was used in place of adrenaline in past. However it is removed from algorithm in latest 2015 ACLS guidelines.

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‰‰ Extracorporeal CPR may be considered as an alternative to conventional CPR.

Other Drugs used in ACLS


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Drug
Adenosine
Indication
SVT/PSVT PD E
Amiodarone Pulseless VT

Atropine Symptomatic Bradycardia


Dopamine Bradycardia S
Epinephrine (Adrenaline) Cardiac Arrest (Vassopressin in high dose can also be used)
Lignocaine VT U
TU
Magsulph Tosades de pointes, Severe Asthma

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P
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CE

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RE

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These Updates are from Primes Supplement 2018

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