Is there still a place for vasopressors in the treatment of cardiac arrest?

Crit Care · 2012 · PMC3681358 · PMID 22429716

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a small trendp = 0.61not close (p > 0.1)

Results showed that survival to hospital discharge did not differ significantly between the groups, despite a small trend in favor of the drug group (10.5% vs. 9.2%, OR 1.16 [95%CI 0.74-1.82], p = 0.61).

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

In one of those trials, patients in the epinephrine group had more than twice the odds of surviving to hospital discharge than those who received placebo, but the difference did not reach statistical significance, possibly because of inadequate sample size.

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a clear trendno p-value reported

There was also a clear trend towards an increased survival to hospital discharge.

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