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Epinephrine compared to placebo in cardiac arrest resuscitation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2015

Tudor Botnaru  and
Jerrald Dankoff
Tudor Botnaru*
Affiliation:
Emergency Medicine Residency Program, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC
Jerrald Dankoff
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC
*
Emergency Medicine Residency Program, McGill University Health Centre, 687 Pine Avenue West, Room A4.62, Montreal, QC H3A 1A1;[email protected]

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Keywords

adrenalinecardiac arrestcardiopulmonary resuscitationepinephrineout-of-hospitalrandomized controlled trialresuscitationsurvival
Type
Knowledge To Practice • Des connaissances à la pratique
Information
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , March 2014 , pp. 151 - 154
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2014

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