Prehospital cardiac arrest outcome is adversely associated with antiarrythmic agent use, but not associated with presenting complaint or medical history

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 95-98

  Vukmir, R B ^a,c,d   Vuikmir, Rade B ^b   Peindl, Paul ^b   Bowers, Charles ^b   Campbell, Joseph ^b   Reed, John ^b   Groft, William ^b   Bashor, Steve ^b   Dixon, James ^b   Pino, B J ^b   Stevensson, Peter ^b   Sanvito, Anthony ^b   Hertzog, Frank ^b   Hess, Bill ^b   Sellew, Mark ^b   Eglgi, Mark ^b   Natale, Dave ^b   Nicole, Doug ^b   Katz, Laurence ^b   Sullivan, Michael ^b   Ebmeyer, Uwe ^b   Bircher, Nicholas ^b   Paris, Paul ^b   Menegazzi, James ^b   Safar, Peter ^b   Nagan, J ^b   Withee, J ^b   more..

^a Emergency Consultants Inc   (United States)

^b Department of Emergency Medicine ^*

^c Northwest 931 Montefiore Hospital   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; BICARBONATE; CARDIAC AGENT; DISOPYRAMIDE; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENT; HEMATOLOGIC AGENT; MEXILETINE; PROCAINAMIDE; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; QUINIDINE; RESPIRATORY TRACT AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG USE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FETUS; FISHER EXACT TEST; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL AREA; SEIZURE; STUDENT T TEST; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; URBAN AREA;

ADVANCED CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT; AGED; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SODIUM BICARBONATE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0842286468     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2003.006445     Document Type: Article

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