Report Paramedics to give placebo to cardiac arrest patients instead of adrenalin

FireCat

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Patients suffering heart failure in Coventry and Warwickshire could be given a placebo instead of adrenalin in a controversial trial.

Warwick Medical School researchers at the University of Warwick have been given the go-ahead for a new study to determine the effectiveness of the drug during resuscitation. Starting in the autumn, paramedics will give a placebo containing salt water rather than the usual injection of adrenalin before carrying out CPR.

The first 8,000 patients to suffer cardiac arrest out of hospital will form part of the study, with 50 per cent receiving the salt water dummy drug while the other half receives an adrenalin jab. It is referred to as a ‘double blind trial’ as neither the patient nor the paramedic, nurse or doctor will know in which treatment group someone was in.

Although patients will be unable to give their consent to take part, the trial has been approved by the Oxford Research Ethics Committee and is funded by the National Institute for Health Research.

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The perfect crime ?
 

Accname

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Yes, exactly. Thats the definition of crime, you got it head on.
 

Varine

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And they will probably learn adrenalin is very useful in pretty much every situation.
 

Varine

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Exactly. Your addiction to sleep is cured by adrenalin.
 

KMilz

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I feel like they're risking lives just to see if adrenaline is helping as much as they think it does. Nothing wrong with the frivolous expenditure of life, but I don't see how this got approved for a real-world trial. Does saline work better at saving mice having heart attacks or something, or what's the basis for doing this?
 

Accname

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Nah, its fine. Those are americans we are talking about. Its not like its the good, valueable european lifes.
They could do this in detroit perhaps. Might actually improve the situation.
 

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