Perspectives on Current Training Guidelines for Cardiac Imaging and Recommendations for the Future.

Purpose Of Review: To summarize current training guidelines for cardiac imaging and provide recommendations for future guidelines.

Recent Findings: The current structure of training in cardiac imaging is largely dictated by modality-specific guidelines. While there has been debate on how to define the advanced cardiac imager for over a decade, a uniform consensus has not emerged.

The Effects of In-Hospital Intravenous Cold Saline in Postcardiac Arrest Patients Treated with Targeted Temperature Management.

Background: Recent data suggest that rapid infusion of intravenous (IV) cold saline for Targeted Temperature Management (TTM) after cardiac arrest is associated with higher rates of rearrest, pulmonary edema, and hypoxia, with no difference in neurologic outcomes or survival when administered by Emergency Medical Services. We sought to determine the effects of IV cold saline administration in the hospital setting in postcardiac arrest patients to achieve TTM and its effect on clinical parameters and neurologic outcomes.

Methods And Results: A cohort of 132 patients who completed TTM after cardiac arrest in a single institution was retrospectively studied.