A Stable Handover Can Hide an Unstable Transport
The patient is awake. The blood pressure is acceptable. The oxygen saturation looks good. The monitor is quiet. The sending team describes them as “stable for transfer.” And yet, sometime…
Shock Is Not a Blood Pressure – Understanding Shock Through Preload, Afterload, and Cardiac Output
One of the easiest mistakes to make when learning shock is to associate it with hypotension. Low blood pressure certainly can occur in shock, but shock is not defined simply…
Magnesium Sulfate in Torsades de Pointes: Are We Treating the Rhythm, or Preventing It?
Understanding the Physiology Behind the Protocol One of the guiding philosophies at AGC Med is that clinicians should strive to understand why they perform an intervention rather than simply memorising…
The Epi Controversy in Pediatric Bradycardia: Evidence, Ethics, and the Reality of Guideline Development
For decades, pediatric resuscitation has taught us that when a child becomes bradycardic with poor perfusion and requires CPR, arrest-dose epinephrine is the natural next step. It’s a familiar reflex.…