Why the study?
Does intravenous lidocaine reduce ventricular arrhythmias and death in postoperative cardiac surgery and post-infarction patients?
Population
Postoperative cardiac surgery patients and patients in the early post-infarction period with ventricular…
Comparison
Lidocaine (intravenous) vs Procainamide (intravenous) or control
Design
Review
Authors
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Lidocaine may suppress post-MI arrhythmias with less depression than procainamide; leaves open its role versus contemporary therapies.
Does intravenous lidocaine reduce ventricular arrhythmias and death in postoperative cardiac surgery and post-infarction patients?
Historically, intravenous lidocaine was established as an effective treatment for ventricular arrhythmias in postoperative and post-infarction patients, with less circulatory depression than procainamide.
Harrison et al. (1974) studied this question.
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