2002 ALIVE TRIAL Amiodarone as Compared with Lidocaine for Shock-Resistant Ventricular Fibrillation Prospective, randomized, controlled, double-dummy trial Objective: To determine whether amiodarone compared with lidocaine could improve survival rates to hospital admission in patients with shock-refractory, out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. 344 adults with documented out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation (VF); suffered persistent/recurrent VF despite three defibrillation shocks, epinephrine […]