Amiodarone or procainamide for the termination of sustained stable ventricular tachycardia: An historical multicenter comparison

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 297-306

  Marill, Keith A ^a   DeSouza, Ian S ^b   Nishijima, Daniel K ^b,e   Senecal, Emily L ^a   Setnik, Gary S ^c   Stair, Thomas O ^d   Ruskin, Jeremy N ^a   Ellinor, Patrick T ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Downstate Health Sciences University   (United States)

^c MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amiodarone; Procainamide; Tachycardia; Ventricular

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; LIDOCAINE; PROCAINAMIDE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASYSTOLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVERSION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART RHYTHM; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TORSADE DES POINTES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGED; AMIODARONE; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; COHORT STUDIES; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW YORK; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROCAINAMIDE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951195288     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00680.x     Document Type: Article

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