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> These findings do not support routine administration of sodium bicarbonate for patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest. Huh, I'd heard of this as an interve
by anitil 4mo ago
> These findings do not support routine administration of sodium bicarbonate for patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest.
Huh, I'd heard of this as an intervention and just assumed it worked
- antonvs 4mo agoThe logic for bicarb use here was basically the same as for injecting bleach to cure an infection: it works in a test tube. There was no clinical evidence for it. In fact the evidence against its use goes back to at least 1976: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1554/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1554/