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Adenosine in wide-complex tachycardia
1Department of Emergency Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, USA. mherbert@ucla.edu
Annals of Emergency Medicine
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
The use of adenosine as a therapeutic and diagnostic tool in wide-complex tachycardia is suggested in the current Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) guidelines. The ACLS guidelines are now 4 years old, and new information on the safety and efficiency of adenosine in wide-complex tachycardia is available. We review the ACLS recommendations in light of the current available literature. In general, the ACLS recommendations remain reasonable with some important caveats.