SGEM#238: The Epi Don’t Work for OHCA
The Skeptics' Guide to EM
DECEMBER 7, 2018
A cardiac defibrillator is hooked up and the patient is in ventricular fibrillation. There have been a number of papers published since OPALS that support the findings of not using ACLS drugs like epinephrine for OHCA ( Olavseengen et al. JAMA 2012 and Cournoyer et al. He is unsuccessfully shocked. JAMA 2009, Hagihara et al.
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