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  • Title: Prophylactic lidocaine in suspected acute myocardial infarction.
    Author: Dunn HM, Kinney CD, Campbell NP, Shanks RG, Adgey AA.
    Journal: Int J Cardiol; 1984 Jan; 5(1):96-8. PubMed ID: 6693216.
    Abstract:
    We gave 50 consecutive patients with suspected acute myocardial infarction prophylactically lidocaine 300 mg intramuscularly and 100 mg intravenously. Although therapeutic plasma levels were reached, 2 of 24 (8%) patients with acute myocardial infarction had ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation and 3 of 50 (6%) became hypotensive during the first hour of lidocaine.
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