Resuscitation
Volume 82, Issue 9 , Pages 1138-1143 , September 2011

Effect of adrenaline on survival in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial

  • Ian G. Jacobs

      Affiliations

    • Discipline of Emergency Medicine (M516), University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, 6009 Western Australia, Australia
    • St John Ambulance (Western Australia), PO Box 183, Belmont 6984, Western Australia, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Discipline of Emergency Medicine (M516), University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, 6009 Western Australia, Australia. Tel.: +61 418 916 261.
    • ,
  • Judith C. Finn

      Affiliations

    • Discipline of Emergency Medicine (M516), University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, 6009 Western Australia, Australia
    • St John Ambulance (Western Australia), PO Box 183, Belmont 6984, Western Australia, Australia
    • ,
  • George A. Jelinek

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne (St Vincents Hospital), Victoria Parade, Fitzroy, 3065 Melbourne, Australia
    • ,
  • Harry F. Oxer

      Affiliations

    • St John Ambulance (Western Australia), PO Box 183, Belmont 6984, Western Australia, Australia
    • ,
  • Peter L. Thompson

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Western Australia, Western Australia, Australia
    • Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, 6009 Western Australia, Australia

Received 19 June 2011 ,Revised 22 June 2011 ,Accepted 24 June 2011.

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☆ A Spanish translated version of the abstract of this article appears as Appendix in the final online version at doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2011.06.029.

PII: S0300-9572(11)00405-9

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2011.06.029

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