How do you save a asystole patient?
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How do you save a asystole patient?
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Dr. William Walsh
Addiction Medicine
In brief: Address other things
Generally, patients in a systole die, as the disease process leading to this rhythm has essentially killed them. Rarely, if you correct another condition you can turn a patient around, but discharge to home after this rhythm is less than 1%.
In brief: Address other things
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Dr. Gutti Rao
Internal Medicine - Hospital-based practice
In brief: ACLS
Follow acls guidelines for asystole.
You can save an occasional patient.
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