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Is there still a place for vasopressors in the treatment of cardiac arrest?

Authors: Claudio Sandroni, Fabio Cavallaro, Massimo Antonelli

Published in: Critical Care | Issue 2/2012

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Around 300,000 people in the United States experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest each year, and less than 10% of them survive to hospital discharge [1]. Survival is only slightly better for in-hospital cardiac arrest [2]. While provision of basic measures like bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or early defibrillation is consistently associated with better survival [3], the benefit of advanced life support (ALS) measures, such as ventilation with advanced airway and administration of drugs, has not been clearly demonstrated [4]. …

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Title: Is there still a place for vasopressors in the treatment of cardiac arrest?
Authors: Claudio Sandroni
Fabio Cavallaro
Massimo Antonelli
Publication date: 01-04-2012
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Critical Care / Issue 2/2012
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/cc11227

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