Evidence-based On-call

internal medicine

Cardiac arrest

Preparation
Immediate management
Investigations
Prevention
Prognosis

Prevention

VT or VF arrest

Consider the following

amiodarone ^a
implantable defibrillators ^a

Expiry date: July 2003
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Author	CM Ball
Reviewer	S Straus
CAT Writers	CM Ball , CJ Wotton