Episode 179 - Transcutaneous Pacing Pearls and Pitfalls

On today's episode, we're lucky to have a couple of special guests to discuss prehospital transcutaneous pacing. Medics turned medical students and EMS researchers, Josh Kimbrell and Judah Kreinbrook recently published a case series decsribing EMS pacing capture. Like many of our favorite topics this came from a paramedic asking a clinical question with loads of dogma and little evidence. What they found should motivate us all to be skeptical when it comes to determining if TCP is actually working. REFERENCES 1. https://www.mchd-tx.org/media/podcasts/TCP-Podcast-Figures.pdf 2. Kimbrell, J., Kreinbrook, J., Poke, D., Kalosza, B., Geldner, J., Shekhar, A. C., Miele, A., Bouthillet, T., & Vega, J. (2024). False Electrical Capture in Prehospital Transcutaneous Pacing by Paramedics: A Case Series. Prehospital emergency care, 28(7), 928–936. 3. https://www.ems12lead.com/post/tcp-in-transit-part-i 4. https://www.ems12lead.com/post/transcutaneous-pacing-part-2 5. https://www.ems12lead.com/post/transcutaneous-pacing-part-3