HEMS Debrief – Cardiac Arrest Focus. #4, Dr Hans van Schuppen (part two)

Hello, and welcome back to the Sydney HEMS debrief, focus on cardiac arrest.

This is the second half of our chat with Dr Hans van Schuppen from Amsterdam as we put the P back into CPR.

In today’s episode, we discuss amongst other things:

• Lung recruitment intra-arrest
• The impact of tidal volumes during arrest
• To PEEP or not to PEEP during arrest
• How to use ventilation to prevent acidosis during arrest

Join now as we continue to pick Hans’ brain, and as ever we hope you enjoy this and subsequent episodes.

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Here is a link to the text Hans’ references concerning common terminology of ventilation during cardiopulmonary resuscitation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39848430/