Procainamide and survival in ventricular fibrillation out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 617-623

  Markel, David T ^a,b   Gold, Laura S ^b,c   Allen, Judith ^b   Fahrenbruch, Carol E ^b   Rea, Thomas D ^a,b   Eisenberg, Mickey S ^a,b   Kudenchuk, Peter J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Emergency Medical Services Division   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiarrhythmia agents; Arrhythmia; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Survival

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; PROCAINAMIDE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT DURATION; UNITED STATES; AGED; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

AGED; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PROCAINAMIDE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 77953600928     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00763.x     Document Type: Article

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