Impact of early intravenous amiodarone administration on neurological outcome in refractory ventricular fibrillation: retrospective analysis of prospectively collected prehospital data.

Abstract:

BACKGROUND:The 2015 AHA guidelines recommend that amiodarone should be used for patients with refractory ventricular fibrillation (RVF). However, the optimal time interval between the incoming call and amiodarone administration (call-to-amiodarone administration interval) in RVF patients has not been investigated. We hypothesized that the time elapsed until amiodarone administration could affect the neurological outcome at hospital discharge in patients with RVF. METHODS AND RESULTS:This study is a retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data. One hundred thirty-four patients were enrolled. In univariate logistic regression, the probability of a good neurological outcome at hospital discharge decreased as the time elapsed until amiodarone administration increased (OR 0.89 [95% CI = 0.80-0.99]). In multivariate logistic regression, the patients who were administered amiodarone in less than 20 min showed higher rates of prehospital ROSC, survival at hospital arrival, any ROSC, survival at admission, survival to discharge, and good CPC at hospital discharge. The call-to-amiodarone administration interval of ≤20 min (OR 6.92, 95% CI 1.72-27.80) was the independent factor affecting the neurological outcome at hospital discharge. CONCLUSION:Early amiodarone administration (≤ 20 min) showed better neurological outcome at hospital discharge for OHCA patients who showed initial ventricular fibrillation and subsequent RVF.

authors

Lee DK,Kim YJ,Kim G,Lee CA,Moon HJ,Oh J,Yang HC,Choi HJ,Oh YT,Park SM

doi

10.1186/s13049-019-0688-1

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-12-10 00:00:00

pages

109

issue

1

issn

1757-7241

pii

10.1186/s13049-019-0688-1

journal_volume

27

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