Declining incidence of ventricular fibrillation in myocardial infarction. Implications for the prophylactic use of lidocaine. | Zendy

Elliott M. Antman | Zendy; Jesse A. Berlin | Zendy

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Declining incidence of ventricular fibrillation in myocardial infarction. Implications for the prophylactic use of lidocaine.

Author(s) -

Elliott M. Antman,

Jesse A. Berlin

Publication year - 1992

Publication title -

circulation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795

H-Index - 607

eISSN - 1524-4539

pISSN - 0009-7322

DOI - 10.1161/01.cir.86.3.764

Subject(s) - medicine , lidocaine , myocardial infarction , randomized controlled trial , ventricular fibrillation , anesthesia , cardiology , cardiogenic shock , incidence (geometry) , physics , optics

The purposes of the present investigation were 1) to track the incidence of primary ventricular fibrillation (VF) in the control and lidocaine-treated groups in the randomized control trials (RCTs) of lidocaine prophylaxis against primary VF in acute myocardial infarction, with particular emphasis on the time frame of the randomized trial, and 2) to estimate the number of patients who must receive lidocaine currently to prevent one episode of VF.

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