Emergency Medicine Book

Examination Chapter

Resuscitation

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Induced Therapeutic Hypothermia
Post-Cardiac Arrest Care
Primary Survey Airway Evaluation
Primary Survey Breathing Evaluation
Primary Survey Circulation Evaluation
Primary Survey Disability Evaluation
Primary Survey Exposure Evaluation
Reversible Causes of Cardiopulmonary Arrest

Environmental Injury

Traumatic Injury

Fluids, Electrolytes, and Nutrition

High Altitude Disorders

High Altitude Related-Conditions

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Reversible Causes of Cardiopulmonary Arrest

Aka: Reversible Causes of Cardiopulmonary Arrest, 5H5T

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Conditions
1. Cardiopulmonary Arrest
2. Arrhythmia
3. Pulseless Electrical Activity
4. Ventricular Tachycardia
5. Ventricular Fibrillation
6. Supreventricular Tachycardia
Background
1. Mnemonic: 5H 5T
Causes: Five H's
1. Hypovolemia
2. Hypoxia
3. Hydrogen ion (Metabolic Acidosis)
4. Hyperkalemia or Hypokalemia
5. Hypothermia
Causes: Five T's
1. Tablets or Toxins
  1. Drug Overdose
2. Tamponade (Cardiac Tamponade)
3. Tension Pneumothorax
4. Thrombosis: Myocardial Infarction
5. Thrombosis: Pulmonary Embolism
References
1. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Guidelines

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