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How effective is amiodarone (nexterone) for treating cardiac arrest?
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Cardiac arrest: Cardiac arrest means you're dead and the heart isn't contracting, amiodarone doesn't help that. It can sometimes convert vtach or stabilize the cardiac rhythm after electrical conversion of ventricular fibrillation but once VFib is converted the arrest is over and you're treating instablility. The only drug that may help arrest is epinephrine.
Answered 5/17/2015
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