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European Resuscitation Council Guidelines for Resuscitation.

John Bache
- 01 Dec 1998 - 
- Vol. 91, Iss: 12, pp 659-659
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This article is published in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.The article was published on 1998-12-01. It has received 2449 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Resuscitation.

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TL;DR: Although bicarbonate is no longer recommended for acute management, it may be useful in patients with metabolic acidosis or intact kidney function and ZS-9 shows promise in the acute treatment of hyperkalemia and may make it possible to avoid or postpone the most effective therapy, emergency hemodialysis.
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Paramedic versus emergency physician emergency medical service: role of the anaesthesiologist and the European versus the Anglo-American concept.

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