HEMS Debrief – Cardiac Arrest Focus. #11, Dr Úna Nic Ionmhain

Greater Sydney Area HEMS · Sep 14, 2025 · 1h 8m

Welcome back to the Sydney HEMS debrief. We are up to episode 11!

Today, we are pivoting towards toxicology. Specifically, we discuss some of the more common toxidromes encountered pre-hospitally, how they cause cardiac arrest, and what providers – in particular pre-hospital providers – may do in order to best resuscitate these patients.

In addition to some broader and very applicable learning themes pertinent to any toxidrome, we discuss

Beta-blockers

Calcium channel blockers

Amitriptyline

Quetiapine

…and more

Of course we are not doing discussing this alone. We are so luck to be joined…