What do you expect to happen after administration of intravenous epinephrine during a resuscitation?

Primary Outcome Measures :

1. survival to hospital discharge with neurologic outcome [ Time Frame: discharge from hospital ]
   

Secondary Outcome Measures :

1. admit to hospital with spontaneous circulation [ Time Frame: hospital admission ]
   
2. one year survival with neurologic outcome [ Time Frame: one year after hospital discharge ]
   

Inclusion Criteria:

• Cardiac arrest out-of-hospital

Exclusion Criteria:

• <18 years old
• Trauma as cause of arrest

Ullevaal University Hospital

Health Region East, Norway

Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation

Publications:
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):

Keywords provided by Petter Andreas Steen, University of Oslo:

Additional relevant MeSH terms:

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