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Title: 2010 AHA Guidelines, part II: atropine

Category: Cardiology

Keywords: atropine, cardiac arrest (PubMed Search)

Posted: 11/14/2010 by Amal Mattu, MD

The new 2010 AHA Guidelines no longer recommend the use of atropine in caring for patients with cardiac arrest. While it may be useful in vagally-mediated bradycardias, the evidence does NOT support the use of atropine in patients with asystole or PEA; therefore, it has been removed from the cardiac arrest algorithm.

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