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Jacobs
2011 Cardiac Arrest
? ICUs
534 patients
Cardiac arrest: adrenaline vs placebo (prehospital)
Clinical Question
In patients with cardiac arrest does adrenaline, compared to placebo,
improve survival to hospital discharge?
Critical Appraisal
Key findings
Only 534 of 5000 recruited. Mult svcs w/d. Increase ROSC, no improvement d/c or neuro
- Population
- Cardiac Arrest
- Population Details
- Pre-hospital Cardiac Arrest
- Intervention Arms
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Adrenaline 1mg every 3 minutes
- Control Arms
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Placebo
- Primary Outcome
- Survival to hospital discharge
- Secondary Outcomes
- Not recorded
- P Value
- 0.15
Outcome Results
Not recorded