Journal article
2018 American Heart Association Focused Update on Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support Use of Antiarrhythmic Drugs During and Immediately After Cardiac Arrest: An Update to the American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care
Circulation (New York, N.Y.), Vol.138(23), pp.E740-E749
12/04/2018
DOI: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000613
PMCID: PMC7324904
PMID: 30571262
Abstract
Antiarrhythmic medications are commonly administered during and immediately after a ventricular fibrillation/pulseless ventricular tachycardia cardiac arrest. However, it is unclear whether these medications improve patient outcomes. This 2018 American Heart Association focused update on advanced cardiovascular life support guidelines summarizes the most recent published evidence for and recommendations on the use of antiarrhythmic drugs during and immediately after shock-refractory ventricular fibrillation/pulseless ventricular tachycardia cardiac arrest. This article includes the revised recommendation that providers may consider either amiodarone or lidocaine to treat shock-refractory ventricular fibrillation/pulseless ventricular tachycardia cardiac arrest.
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- Title: Subtitle
- 2018 American Heart Association Focused Update on Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support Use of Antiarrhythmic Drugs During and Immediately After Cardiac Arrest: An Update to the American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care
- Creators
- Ashish R. Panchal - Ohio State Univ, Wexner Med Ctr, Columbus, OH 43210 USAKatherine M. Berg - Beth Israel Deaconess Med Ctr, Boston, MA 02215 USAPeter J. Kudenchuk - Univ Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 USAMarina Del Rios - Univ Illinois, Chicago Coll Med, Chicago, IL 60680 USAKaren G. Hirsch - Stanford UniversityMark S. Link - Internal MedicineMichael C. Kurz - Univ Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL USAPaul S. Chan - Mid Amer Heart Inst, Kansas City, MO USAJose G. Cabanas - Wake Cty Emergency Med Serv, Raleigh, NC USAPeter T. Morley - The University of MelbourneMary Fran Hazinski - Vanderbilt UniversityMichael W. Donnino - Beth Israel Deaconess Med Ctr, Boston, MA 02215 USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Circulation (New York, N.Y.), Vol.138(23), pp.E740-E749
- DOI
- 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000613
- PMID
- 30571262
- PMCID
- PMC7324904
- NLM abbreviation
- Circulation
- ISSN
- 0009-7322
- eISSN
- 1524-4539
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Number of pages
- 10
- Grant note
- R01 HL123980; K23 HL128814 / NHLBI NIH HHS; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Heart Lung & Blood Institute (NHLBI)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/04/2018
- Academic Unit
- Emergency Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984297143602771
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