Podcast 912: Narcan (Naloxone)

Contributor: Travis Barlock, MD Educational Pearls: First-pass success is critical to limit complications from apnea, hypoxia, and airway trauma. Complication rate for patients intubated on the first pass is 14% Complication rates increase to 47% after two attempts, 64% after thr ...  Show more

Dan Orbidan, OMS-II and Dr. Travis Barlock, MD discuss a real out of hospital call. This episode covers the implications of a pharmacologically abnormal patient presentation and the pre and post hospital considerations for patient management and care. 

The 2020 ACLS guidelines updated the dose for administration of Atropine and Dopamine for the treatment of unstable bradycardia. The signs & symptoms of unstable bradycardia. Atropine's new dose and maximum. The use of atropine when a patient is in a second degree type II or thir ...  Show more

Grow your management tools for opioid withdrawal in the hospital. Investigate how to decide between methadone and buprenorphine, additional medications to manage symptoms and how and when to use short-acting opioids for management of withdrawal. We’re joined by Ashish Thakrar, MD ...  Show more

CardioNerds (Dr. Colin Blumenthal and Dr. Saahil Jumkhawala) join Dr. Rohan Ganti, Dr. Nikita Mishra, and Dr. Jorge Naranjo from the Rutgers – Robert Wood Johnson program for a college basketball game, as the buzz around campus is high. They discuss the following case involving a ...  Show more

More from ESC including: Valvular HD guidelines, a new drug class for HTN, myosin inhibition in HCM, vericiguat, and digoxin are the topic discussed by John Mandrola, MD. This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only. To read a partial transcript or to comment, visit ...  Show more