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kurthr 3 hours ago [-]
Conclusions and Relevance There was no significant difference in sustained return of spontaneous circulation between sodium bicarbonate and placebo in adults with in-hospital cardiac arrest. These findings do not support routine administration of sodium bicarbonate for patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest.
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anitil 3 hours ago [-]
> These findings do not support routine administration of sodium bicarbonate for patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest.
Huh, I'd heard of this as an intervention and just assumed it worked
antonvs 3 hours ago [-]
The logic for bicarb use here was basically the same as for injecting bleach to cure an infection: it works in a test tube. There was no clinical evidence for it.
In fact the evidence against its use goes back to at least 1976:
Huh, I'd heard of this as an intervention and just assumed it worked
In fact the evidence against its use goes back to at least 1976:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1554/