Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 1 , Pages 47-52 , January 2010

Nifekalant versus lidocaine for in-hospital shock-resistant ventricular fibrillation or tachycardia

  • Tsuyoshi Shiga

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, 8-1 Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8666, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +81 3 3353 8111; fax: +81 3 3356 0441.
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  • Keiji Tanaka

      Affiliations

    • Intensive and Cardiac Care Unit, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan
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  • Rinya Kato

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Nagoya Ekisaikai Hospital, Nagoya, Japan
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  • Mari Amino

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan
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  • Yuji Matsudo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Kimitsu Chuo Hospital, Kisarazu, Japan
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  • Toshihiro Honda

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Saisei-kai Kumamoto Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan
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  • Koichi Sagara

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, The Cardiovascular Institute, Tokyo, Japan
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  • Atsushi Takahashi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Women's Medical University, 8-1 Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8666, Japan
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  • Takao Katoh

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan
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  • Mitsuyoshi Urashima

      Affiliations

    • Division of Molecular Epidemiology, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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  • Satoshi Ogawa

      Affiliations

    • International University of Health and Welfare Mita Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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  • Teruo Takano

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan
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  • Hiroshi Kasanuki

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
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  • for the Refractory VT/VF, Prospective Evaluation to Differentiate Lidocaine Efficacy from Nifekalant (RELIEF) Study Investigators

Received 6 June 2009 ,Revised 15 August 2009 ,Accepted 20 September 2009.

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☆ A Spanish translated version of the abstract of this article appears as Appendix in the online version at doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.09.027.

PII: S0300-9572(09)00503-6

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.09.027

Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 1 , Pages 47-52 , January 2010

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