Cardiovascular EM-Critical Care Pharmacology
The PROCAMIO Study – Procainamide or Amiodarone for Stable Wide QRS Tachycardia
Background 2017 AHA/ACC guidelines for the treatment of hemodynamically stable patients with ventricular tachycardia (VT) include the following recommendations:1 Intravenous procainamide can be useful to terminate VT. (Class IIa) Intravenous amiodarone or sotalol may be considered to terminate VT. (Class IIb) In 2013, deSouza et al conducted a systematic literature Read more…
