Treating electrical storm : sympathetic blockade versus advanced cardiac life support-guided therapy.

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Abstract

Electrical storm (ES), defined as recurrent multiple ventricular fibrillation (VF) episodes, often occurs in patients with recent myocardial infarction. Because treating ES according to the Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) guidelines yields a poor outcome, we evaluated the efficacy of sympathetic blockade in treating ES patients and compared their outcome with that of patients treated according to the ACLS guidelines.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Circulation

Title: Circulation

Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

ISSN (Electronic): 1524-4539

ISSN (Print): 0009-7322

Publication date (Electronic): Aug 15 2000

Volume: 102

Issue: 7

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[1 ] Electrophysiology and Pacing Center, Division of Cardiology, School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA. nademane@hsc.usc.edu

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DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.102.7.742

PubMed ID: 10942741

SO-VID: ff0a104e-6899-4a36-a3b0-5eec2380df9d

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