"Stayin' alive": a novel mental metronome to maintain compression rates in simulated cardiac arrests.

Background: A novel and yet untested memory aid has anecdotally been proposed for aiding practitioners in complying with American Heart Association (AHA) cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) compression rate guidelines (at least 100 compressions per minute).

Objectives: This study investigates how subjects using this memory aid adhered to current CPR guidelines in the short and long term.

Methods: A prospective observational study was conducted with medical providers certified in 2005 AHA guideline CPR.

Hepatotoxicity in an infant following supratherapeutic dosing of acetaminophen for twenty-four hours.

Severe hepatotoxicity in acute acetaminophen overdose in children is uncommon. This apparent protection does not extend to chronic or repeated high dose acetaminophen administration. The Illinois Poison Center (IPC) was consulted on a case involving a 7 month old 17 lb infant, who had presented the day prior to an emergency department with complaint of febrile illness.