Mild Therapeutic Hypothermia in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Originally Published: Modern Resident, Dec/Jan 2010

Submitted by: Saadiyah Bilal, Publications Committee Co-Chair

Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) is the only intervention that has been shown to improve outcomes in comatose patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. TH is now recommended by the American Heart Association (AHA) for the

Tox Talks

Originally Published: Modern Resident, Dec/Jan 2010

Submitted by: Saadiyah Bilal, Publications Committee, Co-Chair

Iron toxicity remains a common toxidrome in the emergency department and is the leading cause of pediatric overdose death under age 6. Its antidote, defuroxamine, was recently designated by the Antidote Summit Authorship Group (Ann Emerg Med, Sept. 2009) as a medicine recommended for availability within 60 minutes of every emergency department in the country.