Fact of the Day
November 29, 2012
Post-cardiac arrest patients with ROSC should have their Hemodynamic set:
- Maintain euvolemia
- Urine output: greater than or equal to 0.5 mL/kg/h
- MAP: greater than or equal to 65 mm Hg
- ScvO2: greater than or equal to 70%
- Lactate clearance of greater than 10% at 2-hour intervals until normal
- Vasopressors and inotropic agents as needed - Consider mechanical assist device (LVAD, IABP)
Emerg Med Clin N Am 30 (2012) 123–140