Abstracts in Urgent Care: December, 2011

NAHUM KOVALSKI, BSc, MDCM Effect of Adrenaline on Survival in Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest Key point: Adrenaline improves chance of return of spontaneous circulation but not survival to discharge. Citation: Jacobs IG, Finn JC, Jelinek GA, et al. Effect of adrenaline on survival in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial. Resuscitation. 2011;82(9):1138-1143. Adrenaline has been used to treat patients with cardiac arrest for more than half a century but has not been evaluated in …

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