Lidocaine in the Prevention of Primary Ventricular Fibrillation
- 19 December 1974
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 291 (25), 1324-1326
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197412192912504
Abstract
To assess the efficacy of lidocaine in preventing primary ventricular fibrillation in acute myocardial infarction a double-blind, randomized study was performed in 212 consecutive patients under the age of 70 years admitted to the hospital within six hours of infarction.Keywords
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