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Adenosine Conversion of Supraventricular Tachycardia Associated with High-Dose Epinephrine Therapy for Cardiac Arrest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Robert T. Gerhardt ,
Richard Furlong ,
Kathleen Schrank  and
Bradford D. Ress
Robert T. Gerhardt*
Affiliation:
The Emergency Medical Service, William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, Texas
Richard Furlong
Affiliation:
The Emergency Medicine Section, Department of Medicine, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
Kathleen Schrank
Affiliation:
The Emergency Medicine Section, Department of Medicine, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
Bradford D. Ress
Affiliation:
The Department of Otolaryngology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
*
USA Attn: emergency medical services-DPCCM WBAMC 5005 North Piedras El Paso, Texas 79920 USA
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Abstract

Adenosine has received wide acceptance as the drug of choice for initial treatment of supraventricular tachycardias (supraventricular tachycardia), and as a diagnostic adjunct in hemodynamically stable, wide-complex tachycardias. This report describes the successful use of adenosine for the treatment of supraventricular tachycardia occurring after successful initial resuscitation from ventricular fibrillation, in which a high dose of the epinephrine protocol was used.

Type
Original Research
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , June 1999 , pp. 65 - 67
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1999

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