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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2019

Effect of Prophylactic Amiodarone Infusion on the Recurrence of Ventricular Arrhythmias in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Survivors: A Propensity-Matched Analysis.

Byung Kook Lee, Chun Song Youn, Youn-Jung Kim, Seung Mok Ryoo, Kyung Soo Lim, Gi-Byoung Nam, Su Jin Kim, Won Young Kim

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Byung Kook LeeDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju 61469, Korea. bbukkuk@hanmail.net.ORCID 0000-0003-3571-9448
Chun Song YounDepartment of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Korea. ycs1005@catholic.ac.kr.
Youn-Jung KimDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Ulsan University College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul 05505, Korea. yjkim.em@gmail.com.
Seung Mok RyooDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Ulsan University College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul 05505, Korea. chrisryoo@naver.com.
Kyung Soo LimDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Ulsan University College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul 05505, Korea. kslim@amc.seoul.kr.
Gi-Byoung NamDepartment of Internal Medicine, Ulsan University College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul 05505, Korea. gbnam@amc.seoul.kr.
Su Jin KimDepartment of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea. wonpia73@naver.com.ORCID 0000-0003-3769-9647
Won Young KimDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Ulsan University College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul 05505, Korea. icarusksj@korea.ac.kr.ORCID 0000-0002-6904-5966
Asan Medical Center · KRCatholic University of Korea · KRChonnam National University Hospital · KRKorea University · KR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Amiodarone is recommended for shock-refractory ventricular arrhythmia during resuscitation; however, it is unknown whether amiodarone is effective for preventing ventricular arrhythmia recurrence in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survivors treated with targeted temperature management (TTM). We investigated the effectiveness of prophylactic amiodarone in preventing ventricular arrhythmia recurrence in OHCA survivors. Data of consecutive adult non-traumatic OHCA survivors treated with TTM between 2010 and 2016 were extracted from prospective cardiac arrest registries of four tertiary care hospitals. The prophylactic amiodarone group was matched in a 1:1 ratio by using propensity scores. The primary outcome was ventricular arrhythmia recurrence requiring defibrillation during TTM. Among 295 patients with an initially shockable rhythm and 149 patients with initially non-shockable-turned-shockable rhythm, 124 patients (27.9%) received prophylactic amiodarone infusion. The incidence of ventricular arrhythmia recurrence was 11.26% (50/444). Multivariate analysis showed prophylactic amiodarone therapy to be the independent factor associated with ventricular arrhythmia recurrence (odds ratio 1.95, 95% CI 1.04⁻3.65,

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amiodaronecardiac arrestoutcometargeted temperature managementventricular arrhythmia

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