Timeliness of administration of vasopressors in CPR

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Critical Care

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Timeliness of administration of vasopressors in CPR

Stefek Grmec and Stefan Mally

Center for Emergency Medicine Maribor, Ulica talcev 9, Maribor 2000, Medical Faculty University Maribor, Medical Faculty University Ljubljana, Faculty for Health Sciences University Maribor, Slovenia

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Critical Care 2009, 13:401doi:10.1186/cc7691


Published:	28 January 2009

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We read with great interest the report by Gueugniaud and coworkers [1] on the role of combined vasopressin and epinephrine during advanced cardiac life support for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The authors conclude that the combination does not improve outcome. In some of our previous studies [2,3] we identified improvements in restoration of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) and/or survival and neurological outcome when combining vasopressors to manage out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, and therefore we were surprised by the results of this study.