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The Management of Traumatic Cardiac Arrest and Brain Impact Apnea
About
Presented by Dr Blake Eddington
Blake is an Emergency Medicine Specialist working at The Tweed and Byron Departments of Emergency Medicine, and he also runs the EMET, Emergency Medicine Education and Training, Simulation and Skill workshops program for the Byron, Mullumbimby, and Murwillumbah hospitals and University Centres for Rural Health.
Out of hospital traumatic cardiac arrest has a survival to neurologically intact hospital discharge of 2% - in Ireland they have increased this to 40% and Blake will explain how they have done that!