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Aminophylline for bradyasystolic cardiac arrest in adults

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, November 2015
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Title
Aminophylline for bradyasystolic cardiac arrest in adults
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Cochrane database of systematic reviews, November 2015
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd006781.pub3
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Katrina F Hurley, Kirk Magee, Robert Green

Abstract

In cardiac ischaemia, the accumulation of adenosine may lead to or exacerbate bradyasystole and diminish the effectiveness of catecholamines administered during resuscitation. Aminophylline is a competitive adenosine antagonist. Case studies suggest that aminophylline may be effective for atropine-resistant bradyasystolic arrest. To determine the effects of aminophylline in the treatment of patients in bradyasystolic cardiac arrest, primarily survival to hospital discharge. We also considered survival to admission, return of spontaneous circulation, neurological outcomes and adverse events. For this updated review, we searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, LILACS, ClinicalTrials.gov and WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform in November 2014. We checked the reference lists of retrieved articles, reviewed conference proceedings, contacted experts and searched further using Google. All randomised controlled trials comparing intravenous aminophylline with administered placebo in adults with non-traumatic, normothermic bradyasystolic cardiac arrest who were treated with standard advanced cardiac life support (ACLS). Two review authors independently reviewed the studies and extracted the included data. We contacted study authors when needed. Pooled risk ratio (RR) was estimated for each study outcome. Subgroup analysis was predefined according to the timing of aminophylline administration. We included five trials in this analysis, all of which were performed in the prehospital setting. The risk of bias was low in four of these studies (n = 1186). The trials accumulated 1254 participants. Aminophylline was found to have no effect on survival to hospital discharge (risk ratio (RR) 0.58, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.12 to 2.74) or on secondary survival outcome (survival to hospital admission: RR 0.92, 95% CI 0.61 to 1.39; return of spontaneous circulation: RR 1.15, 95% CI 0.89 to 1.49). Survival was rare (6/1254), making data about neurological outcomes and adverse events quite limited. The planned subgroup analysis for early administration of aminophylline included 37 participants. No one in the subgroup survived to hospital discharge. The prehospital administration of aminophylline in bradyasystolic arrest is not associated with improved return of circulation, survival to admission or survival to hospital discharge. The benefits of aminophylline administered early in resuscitative efforts are not known.

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Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 129 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 18 14%
Student > Master 17 13%
Other 10 8%
Researcher 9 7%
Librarian 7 5%
Other 23 18%
Unknown 46 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 41 32%
Nursing and Health Professions 14 11%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 5 4%
Psychology 4 3%
Computer Science 2 2%
Other 12 9%
Unknown 52 40%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 November 2021.
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#2,738,137
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#5,415
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#42,960
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Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#146
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