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Testing Epinephrine for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Friday, August 31, 2018
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Source Name: The New England Journal of Medicine
A balanced editorial discussing the relevant RCT from Britain. The esteemed authors are correct to highlight the overall discouraging survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest WITHOUT NEUROLOGICAL DEFICIT. What does need to be done to improve a 3% acceptable outcome? The 'non-superiority' of adrenaline (epinephrine) is, under the devastating primary outcome, a finding of secondary importance for the general public.
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- Clinical Epidemiology
- Pharmacology
- Physiology
- Coronary Disease - Other
- Electrophysiology - Arrhythmias
- Ethics
- Extracorporeal Circulation
- Intensive Care - Systemic Diseases
- Intensive Care Guidelines
- ECMO
- Cardiac
- Critical Care
- Thoracic
- Basic science
- Coronary disease
- Electrophysiology/arrhythmia
- Ethics
- Extracorporeal circulation
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- Mechanical circulatory assistance