• Acta cardiologica · Aug 2018

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    Drugs in cardiac arrest: the rise and fall of antiarrhythmics.

    • George Karlis and Sevasti Afantenou.
    • a Department of Intensive Care Medicine , Evangelismos Hospital , Greece.
    • Acta Cardiol. 2018 Aug 1; 73 (4): 325-327.

    AbstractSince the publication of 2000 guidelines for resuscitation, amiodarone is considered the antiarrhythmic drug of choice for refractory ventricular fibrillation/pulseless ventricular tachycardia. However, to date there is no proven benefit in terms of neurologically intact survival to hospital discharge. A comprehensive search of the recent literature on amiodarone, nifekalant and lidocaine in cardiac arrest was performed. Amiodarone and nifekalant are superior to lidocaine with regards to the return of spontaneous circulation and survival to hospital admission. Nifekalant shows a trend towards quicker termination of ventricular fibrillation compared to amiodarone. There is great uncertainty about the efficacy of antiarrhythmics in cardiac arrest. Failure to show improvements regarding meaningful survival questions their current use and suggests the need for re-evaluating their place in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

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