Assessment of emergency physicians' performance in identifying shockable rhythm in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: an observational simulation study.

Background: Emergency physicians can use a manual or an automated defibrillator to provide defibrillation of patients who had out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Performance of emergency physicians in identifying shockable rhythm with a manual defibrillator has been poorly explored whereas that of automated defibrillators is well known (sensitivity 0.91-1.

Benefit of Switching Dual Antiplatelet Therapy After Acute Coronary Syndrome According to On-Treatment Platelet Reactivity: The TOPIC-VASP Pre-Specified Analysis of the TOPIC Randomized Study.

Objectives: This study sought to evaluate the impact of initial platelet reactivity on the benefit of switched strategy.

Background: TOPIC (Timing Of Platelet Inhibition after acute Coronary Syndrome) study suggested that switched dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) could improve net clinical benefit after acute coronary syndrome by preventing bleeding.

Methods: Acute coronary syndrome patients, 1 month after coronary stenting and event free, were randomly assigned to aspirin and clopidogrel (switched DAPT) or continuation of drug regimen (unchanged DAPT).