A 35-Year-Old Woman With Shock, Pulseless Electrical Activity Arrest, and Hemodynamic Collapse

Case 4 - 84-Year old female with precordial pain and cardiac arrest with pulseless electrical activity

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Application of ultrasound in pulseless electrical activity (PEA) cardiac arrest

Tissue plasminogen activator in cardiac arrest with pulseless electrical activity.

BACKGROUND Coronary thrombosis and pulmonary thromboembolism are common causes of cardiac arrest. We assessed whether the administration of tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) during cardiopulmonary resuscitation would benefit patients with cardiac arrest and pulseless electrical activity of unknown or presumed cardiovascular cause. METHODS Patients who were older than 16 years of age and who...

Imaging in a 35-year-old woman with progressive headache.

© 2014 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors CMAJ 1 A 35-year-old woman presents with a onemonth history of progressive global headaches, which last from hours to a day. The headaches are associated with visual blurring and paresthesia involving the left side of her face. She sometimes experiences nausea and vomiting with the headaches. On a few occasions, her headaches have been associ...

application of ultrasound in pulseless electrical activity (pea) cardiac arrest

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