The researchers describe a 79-year-old woman who was admitted with atrial flutter and treated with intravenous (IV) amiodarone. She developed coagulopathy, altered mental status, and derangement ...

Why does intravenous infusion of amiodarone cause significant hypotension? Intravenous amiodarone infusion causes significant arterial vasodilation and hypotension not seen with the oral ...

Results of the <b>Amiodarone versus Lidocaine in Prehospital Ventricular</b> <b>Fibrillation Evaluation</b> (ALIVE) trial, reported in May 2001 at the North American Society of Pacing and ...

Antiarrhythmic drugs are used commonly in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest for shock-refractory ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia, but without proven survival benefit. In ...