Cardiac Arrest in Seattle: Conventional Versus Amiodarone Drug Evaluation (CASCADE)

Launched by UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · Oct 27, 1999

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BACKGROUND:

Sudden cardiac death can usually be attributed to the occurrence of the cardiac arrhythmia, ventricular fibrillation. Although a significant proportion of patients experiencing sudden cardiac death may be successfully resuscitated without disabling sequelae, this event tends to recur. Recurrent sudden cardiac death is more common among patients demonstrating certain clinical characteristics such as: ventricular fibrillation occurring in a setting of a remote prior transmural infarction; the presence of abnormal left ventricular function; male gender; concurrent complex ventricu...

Gender

ALL

Eligibility criteria

• • Men and women with ventricular fibrillation who had survived an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest not associated with a Q-wave acute myocardial infarction.

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