A best evidence topic in cardiac surgery was written according to a structured protocol. The
question addressed was whether the administration of amiodarone or lidocaine in patients …

Objective: Ventricular fibrillation is common after aortic declamping in patients undergoing
open heart surgery. This situation has a negative impact on morbidity and mortality. The aim …

Amiodarone therapy has been implicated as a risk factor for cardiothoracic surgical
procedures. In patients undergoing map-guided surgical procedures for the treatment of …

OBJECTIVES This study was designed to test whether intravenous (IV) amiodarone would
prevent atrial fibrillation and decrease hospital stay after open heart surgery …

We examined the influence of preoperative therapy with amiodarone on the incidence of
acute organ dysfunction after cardiac surgery in a matched casecontrol study. There were …

A patient with sustained ventricular tachycardia was operated on after an unsuccessful trial
of amiodarone. Profound myocardial depression and low cardiac output became evident as …

Background. Atrial fibrillation occurs in 10% to 40% of patients who undergo coronary artery
bypass grafting. This prospective study assesses the safety and efficacy of low-dose …

Despite the widespread use of amiodarone in non-surgical patients, itsrole in the
management of supraventricular tachyarrhythmias after cardiacsurgery is not clear. We set …

Despite the astonishing advances that have been made in cardiac surgery over the past 40
years, new-onset atrial fibrillation re-mains its most common complication. Long thought a …

The recent publication of a large randomized trial of amiodarone arrhythmia prophylaxis
after cardiac surgery (PAPABEAR) is of great interest. 1 It was striking how similar the results …