Responding To Cardiac Arrest - Every Minute Counts!

A Singapore medical team is endeavoring on an ambitious target of emergency response time of 2 minutes (see the news from Channel News Asia below)This would be especially important in setting of responding to a sudden cardiac arrest case where every minute counts! The reasons being:Resuscitation is most successful if defibrillation is performed in about 5 minutes after collapseEffective bystander

Emergency Medicine Digest

1. Prolonged QTc in diabetic ketoacidosis in childrenQTc was shown to be prolonged in up to 47% of diabetic ketoacidosis in children and tend to resolves when the ketosis clears (only 13% still with prolonged QTc after recovery).Implication: Probably monitoring of QT interval in diabetic ketoacidosis in children can be used as a measure of the disease progression?Reference:Kuppermann N et al.