The role of pharmacologic therapy during ACLS 2014 overview
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What is the role of pharmacologic therapy during ACLS?The immediate goals of pharmacologic therapy are to improve myocardial blood flow, increaseventricular inotropy, and terminate life-threatening arrhythmias, thereby restoring and/ormaintaining spontaneous circulation. Combined a/b-adrenergic agonists, such as epinephrine,and smooth-muscle V1 agonists, such as vasopressin, augment the mean aortic-to-ventricularend-diastolic pressure gradient (coronary perfusion pressure) by increasing arterial...
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