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Lidocaine pharmacokinetics after cardiac arrest and external cardiopulmonary resuscitation
1Department of Emergency Medicine, Austin and Repatriation Medical Center, University of Melbourne, Australia.
The American Journal of Cardiology
|December 1, 1996
Abstract:
Although prolonged cardiopulmonary resuscitation may impair drug metabolism, plasma lidocaine concentrations tended to remain within the therapeutic range after cardiopulmonary resuscitation lasting up to 30 minutes. Thus, the effects of cardiopulmonary resuscitation on lidocaine metabolism appear to be of little importance in the usual clinical situation.