Vasopressin, Epinephrine, and Corticosteroids for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest.

The article discusses a study on cardiac arrest which showed improved long-term survival with combined vasopressin-epinephrine. It hypothesizes that combined vasopressin-epinephrine and corticosteroid supplementation during and after resuscitation may improve survival in refractory in-hospital cardiac arrest. The findings of the study constitute the first evidence of increased efficacy of adding vasopressin and methylprednisolone to epinephrine during CPR and treating postresuscitation shock with stress-dose hydrocortisone.