Best evidence in anesthetic practice Treatment: Vasopressin neither improves nor worsens survival from cardiac arrest

Structured abstractQuestionDoes vasopressin, as the initial vasopressor, improve one-hour survival compared to epinephrine in inpatients with cardiac arrest?DesignMulticentre, randomized controlled trial. Patients, caregivers, study investigators, and adjudication committee were blinded.SettingEmergency rooms, critical care units, and wards of three teaching hospitals in Canada from July 1997 to November 1998.PatientsTwo hundred inpatients with …