Antiarrhythmic drugs for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with refractory ventricular fibrillation

Takashi Tagami, Hideo Yasunaga, Hiroyuki Yokota, Takashi Tagami, Hideo Yasunaga, Hiroyuki Yokota

Abstract

This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency medicine 2017. Other selected articles can be found online at http://ccforum.com/series/annualupdate2017 . Further information about the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is available from http://www.springer.com/series/8901 .

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