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These are the voyages of the Starship AHA. And this episode is going to go where few have actually dared to go before...a path through space unencumbered by the numbingly binding dogma that is ACLS in cardiac resuscitation. 

Let me be clear. This is not an attack on the AHA. I am an instructor in every discipline the AHA offers, and am affiliate faculty for the AHA. That being said, the ACLS guidelines are recommendations that are meant to cater to the non-resuscitation personnel in the healthcare world, those who are not yet at the point where they can apply critical thinking outside of the ACLS algorithms. Every cardiac arrest is different, and a blanket approach cannot be applied to every patient. So what should those in EMS and Emergency/Critical Care Medicine who ARE resuscitation experts do? Do we also blindly follow the algorithms? Or do we apply critical thinking and maneuver our way around and between the guidelines? Join me for what is most likely going to be a spicy episode discussing Epinephrine, hypothermic arrests, trauma arrests, POCUS and PEA, and more.