The roles of methoxamine and norepinephrine in electromechanical dissociation

✍ Scribed by Arthur B Sanders

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 641 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1097-6760
• DOI: 10.1016/s0196-0644(84)80454-0

✦ Synopsis

blood flow. Outcome studies have shown methoxamine to be comparable to epinephrine in resuscitation from asphyxial arrest. One study demonstrated methoxamine's superiority in raising the aortic diastolic pressure and resuscitating animals from ventricular fibrillation. No significant advantage of norepinephrine use is evident in the literature. Controlled experiments in the animal model and in human patients must be done to determine whether methoxamine or epinephrine is superior in resuscitation from EMD and other forms of cardiac arrest. [Sanders AB: The roles of methoxamine and norepinephrine in electromechanical dissociation. Ann Emerg Med September 1984 (Part 2);