I honestly believed that, but I am questioning it reading this. I was under the impression that at the hospital, usually just chest compressions, ventilation, shocking, rhythm interpretation, and ACLS drugs were push, and that's it; the things we do in an ambulance/on scene.3. "A hospital can't do any more for a pulseless patient than we can do in our ambulance". (Wonder where I've read that before).
In my anatomy book, I read that a pericardiocentesis can be done if the patient is experiencing a pericardial temponade, and a tampondate is one of the H's and T's taught in ACLS. What else could be done for a patient in cardiac arrest in a hospital versus prehospitally? What about a thoracotomy? Is there anything else that could be done during an arrest that can be done at a hospital, but not normally prehospitally? Is it reasonable to do (e.g. wouldn't require chest compressions to be stopped longer than 5 minutes)?
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