Administrating life-saving drugs for cardiac arrest directly into the bone does ... way (intraosseous (IO)) is to give drugs through a needle placed in an arm or leg bone. The use of this ...

Since the 1950s, cardiac arrest has been observed in burn patients receiving succinylcholine. A decade later, hyperkalemia was determined to be the cause of the cardiac arrest in these patients.

Despite some best efforts and a patient feeling "better than ever," cardiac arrest is a beast that won in a patient encounter.