Extreme Acidosis in Cardiac Arrest: How Low Can You Go?

How low pH can the human body handle? How bad is acidosis for cardiac arrest? Is there any point resuscitating a cardiac arrest patient with a venous pH of 6.8?
In this lecture from Swedish Emergency Talks 2017, emergency medicine resident Jonathan Ilicki presents a poem covering cardiac arrest physiology, acidosis and the extreme boundaries of the human body. Discover what acidosis does to the human body and prepare to be surprised about how low we can go!
Bonus!: Chris Turner contacted us and let us know about what seems to be the world record in acidosis in cardiac arrest (which unfortunately wasn't included in this lecture). Case report lives here: www.resuscitationjournal.com/a...
Credits:
- scanFOAM, the hub for Scandinavian FOAMed (www.scanfoam.org)
- Swedish Emergency Talks 2017 (www.sweets.nu/en)
- Johan Smedbäck (recording)
- Therese Djärv and Susanne Rysz (peer review)
- Music: Decktonic (goo.gl/vuBfjJ)

[@sk8razer]

Normally, the rhyming would annoy me. But I loved that he seemed to enjoy it so much 😂

[@CliffReid]

Superb! Thank you

[@ebmdoctor]

Thank you! Hearing that from an educator like you made my day!

[@frankmaggio4328]

you rhyme!!

[@RS-ig1zr]

Very dramatic