Welcome back!

First up a paper to challenge the way we think about rhythm recognition in cardiac arrest to start with, looking at the rate of VF identified on echo but not on the defibrillator.

We have a huge amount of strategies to rule out acute coronary syndrome in the UK, our next paper looks at the clinical effectiveness of these, whilst also giving us some hugely important information about the incidence of ACS in those presenting to Eds.

Finally we look at a paper quantifying the effect of hypertonic saline in those patients with a TBI.

Once again we’d love to hear any thoughts or feedback either on the website or via X @TheResusRoom.

We’ll be taking a short break over the summer, but will be back in September with another Papers of the Month and Roadside to Resus, until then have a fantastic summer!

Simon & Rob

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References

Incidence and Clinical Relevance of Echocardiographic Visualization of Occult Ventricular Fibrillation: A Multicenter Prospective Study of Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. Gaspari. Ann Emerg Med. 2025

Acute coronary syndrome rule-­out strategies in the emergency department: an observational evaluation of clinical effectiveness and current UK practice. TERN. EMJ. 2025

Clearing the path: Hypertonic saline’s impact on intracranial pressure in traumatic brain injury. A systematic review and meta-analysis. Ten. Adv Clin Exp Med. 2025