New ACLS standards; continue CPR even as shock?

Smash said:
Zombies?

Remember Rule 4.

Seriously though, whilst the rationale is sound, this will be a difficult change for those of us who have been in the field for a while to adapt to. It is such an ingrained habit to stand back with hands in the air when defibrillating that it will take a while to overcome that.
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I'm only a recently graduated paramedic, but clearing the patient before defibrillation was a critical failure in our finals and megacodes. We had a handful of classmates fail their final megacode for failing to verbalize clearing the patient before defib.
 
CAOX3 said:
Actually there is dead dead and viable dead and everytime you take you hands off that patients chest they become more dead dead and less viable dead. QUOTE]

I like that analogy!
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Do automated CPR machines (i.e. AutoPulse) stop during defibrillation?
 
Not that I am aware of, we never did.... but to get an underlying rhythem... you gotta pause for a second or two.
 
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Can anyone provide a link to this new updated standard if its out yet?
 
Hockey said:
Can anyone provide a link to this new updated standard if its out yet?
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They're not out yet.



Is anyone else excited to see what the changes will be?

Man I'm such a nerd. B)
 
Looks like October but the books will not be released with the updates until next year some time in the summer probably. So if you take ACLS you probably will be taught current guidelines for the next several months. What is funny about this rumor is the ACLS instructors have not even been told what if any changes have been made to the guidelines yet. So not sure where people have come up with this rumor.
 
Why its quite simple, never let wild rumor and speculation get in the way of fact :D
 
MrBrown said:
Why its quite simple, never let wild rumor and speculation get in the way of fact :D
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No you have that wrong. Never let facts get in the way of wild rumors and speculation.:P
 
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