this is alps cardiac arrest trial, make me a PICO journal club presentation material for this.
cd /home/daytona/workspace/attachments/639b5ad7-db5d-468a-a895-f0af22fda5fd && python -c " import pdfplumber with pdfplumber.open('NEJMoa1514204.pdf') as pdf: print(f'Pages: {len(pdf.pages)}') for i, page in enumerate(pdf.pages[:8]): print(f'--- PAGE {i+1} ---') print(page.extract_text()) print() "
cd /home/daytona/workspace/attachments/639b5ad7-db5d-468a-a895-f0af22fda5fd && python -c " import pdfplumber with pdfplumber.open('NEJMoa1514204.pdf') as pdf: for i, page in enumerate(pdf.pages[8:]): print(f'--- PAGE {i+9} ---') print(page.extract_text()) print() "
ls /home/daytona/workspace/ && mkdir -p /home/daytona/workspace/alps-journal-club
~/alps-journal-club/build.js
const pptxgen = require("pptxgenjs");
const pres = new pptxgen();
pres.layout = "LAYOUT_WIDE"; // 13.3 x 7.5 inches
// ─── COLOR PALETTE ───────────────────────────────────────────────
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navy: "0D1B2A", // dominant dark background
teal: "1B7F8E", // accent / section label
amber: "E8A838", // highlight / key numbers
white: "F4F7FA", // body text on dark
lightBg: "EDF2F7", // light slide background
midGray: "6B7280", // secondary text on light
red: "C0392B", // warning / negative
green: "1A8754", // positive
slate: "1E3A5F", // second dark shade
};
// ─── MASTER HELPERS ──────────────────────────────────────────────
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// ─── SLIDE 1 — TITLE ─────────────────────────────────────────────
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s.addText("ALPS TRIAL", {
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fontSize: 16, bold: true, color: C.teal, charSpacing: 5,
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s.addText([
{ text: "Amiodarone, Lidocaine,", options: { breakLine: true } },
{ text: "or Placebo in", options: { breakLine: true } },
{ text: "Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest", options: {} },
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s.addText("Kudenchuk PJ et al. • N Engl J Med 2016;374:1711–22", {
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s.addText("Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC-ALPS)", {
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fontSize: 14, color: C.white, italic: true,
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s.addText("JOURNAL CLUB PRESENTATION • EMERGENCY MEDICINE / CRITICAL CARE", {
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// ─── SLIDE 2 — OVERVIEW / AGENDA ─────────────────────────────────
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const items = [
["01", "Background & Clinical Context", "Why do we give antiarrhythmics in OHCA?"],
["02", "PICO Framework", "Population · Intervention · Comparison · Outcome"],
["03", "Study Design & Methods", "RCT design, randomization, blinding, endpoints"],
["04", "Results", "Primary, secondary, subgroup, mechanistic outcomes"],
["05", "Critical Appraisal", "Strengths, limitations, bias assessment"],
["06", "Clinical Implications", "What should change at the bedside?"],
];
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s.addText(sub, { x: x + 0.82, y: y + 0.6, w: 4.9, h: 0.55, fontSize: 11, color: C.midGray, italic: true });
});
}
// ─── SLIDE 3 — BACKGROUND ────────────────────────────────────────
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const s = pres.addSlide();
lightSlide(s);
addTag(s, "Background", 0.5, 0.4);
s.addText("Why Does This Trial Matter?", {
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// Stat box left
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s.addText("300,000+", { x: 0.5, y: 1.9, w: 3.8, h: 0.9, fontSize: 40, bold: true, color: C.amber, align: "center" });
s.addText("OHCA deaths per year\nin North America", { x: 0.5, y: 2.8, w: 3.8, h: 0.9, fontSize: 13, color: C.white, align: "center" });
const bullets = [
"VF/pVT is the most treatable OHCA rhythm — responsive to defibrillation",
"Most defibrillation attempts do NOT result in sustained ROSC",
"VF/pVT persists or recurs in many patients → shock-refractory state",
"Amiodarone & lidocaine widely used, but prior RCTs only showed ROSC/admission benefit — no proven survival-to-discharge benefit",
"Previous small RCTs (Kudenchuk 1999; Dorian 2002) favored amiodarone for short-term endpoints only",
];
bullets.forEach((b, i) => {
s.addShape(pres.ShapeType.ellipse, { x: 4.65, y: 1.78 + i * 0.97, w: 0.28, h: 0.28, fill: { color: C.teal }, line: { type: "none" } });
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s.addShape(pres.ShapeType.rect, { x: 0.5, y: 4.55, w: 12.3, h: 0.06, fill: { color: C.amber }, line: { type: "none" } });
s.addText("ALPS was designed to definitively answer: does antiarrhythmic therapy improve survival to hospital discharge?", {
x: 0.5, y: 4.75, w: 12.3, h: 0.55,
fontSize: 14, italic: true, color: C.slate, bold: true,
});
}
// ─── SLIDE 4 — PICO ──────────────────────────────────────────────
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darkSlide(s);
addTag(s, "PICO Framework", 0.5, 0.3);
s.addText("PICO at a Glance", {
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fontSize: 32, bold: true, color: C.white,
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s.addShape(pres.ShapeType.rect, { x: 0.5, y: 1.38, w: 3.5, h: 0.05, fill: { color: C.amber }, line: { type: "none" } });
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{
letter: "P",
label: "POPULATION",
color: C.teal,
lines: [
"Adults ≥18 yrs with nontraumatic OHCA",
"Initial rhythm: VF or pVT",
"Shock-refractory (≥1 shock delivered)",
"IV/IO vascular access obtained",
"Enrolled by paramedics at 10 North American sites",
"Excluded: prior open-label amiodarone/lidocaine, known hypersensitivity",
],
},
{
letter: "I",
label: "INTERVENTION",
color: C.amber,
lines: [
"IV Amiodarone (Captisol-based Nexterone)",
"Initial dose: 300 mg (2 syringes × 150 mg)",
"Supplemental dose: 150 mg (1 syringe) if VF/pVT persisted",
"Total max dose: 450 mg",
"Given after vasopressor, during ongoing ACLS",
"Administered by EMS paramedics prehospital",
],
},
{
letter: "C",
label: "COMPARISON",
color: "5BA4CF",
lines: [
"Arm 1: IV Lidocaine 120 mg (2 × 60 mg)",
"Arm 2: Normal Saline Placebo (identical packaging)",
"Triple-arm, double-blind, placebo-controlled",
"Syringes identically appearing — indistinguishable",
"Randomized 1:1:1 by EMS kit-opening",
"Standard ACLS continued in all arms",
],
},
{
letter: "O",
label: "OUTCOME",
color: C.amber,
lines: [
"PRIMARY: Survival to hospital discharge",
"SECONDARY: Favorable neurologic outcome at discharge (mRS ≤3)",
"MECHANISTIC: ROSC at ED arrival, hospital admission rate, shocks after drug",
"SAFETY: Adverse events within 24 hrs (bradycardia, seizures, anaphylaxis)",
"SUBGROUP: Witnessed vs. unwitnessed arrest interaction",
],
},
];
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{ x: 0.4, y: 1.6 },
{ x: 6.85, y: 1.6 },
{ x: 0.4, y: 4.25 },
{ x: 6.85, y: 4.25 },
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// Letter badge
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s.addText(item.letter, { x, y: y + 0.8, w: 0.65, h: 0.85, fontSize: 36, bold: true, color: C.navy, align: "center" });
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}
// ─── SLIDE 5 — STUDY DESIGN ──────────────────────────────────────
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const s = pres.addSlide();
lightSlide(s);
addTag(s, "Study Design", 0.5, 0.4);
s.addText("Trial Design & Methods", {
x: 0.5, y: 0.85, w: 12.0, h: 0.65,
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s.addShape(pres.ShapeType.rect, { x: 0.5, y: 1.5, w: 4.0, h: 0.05, fill: { color: C.teal }, line: { type: "none" } });
// Design badge
const designItems = [
["Design", "Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, 3-Arm Trial"],
["Setting", "Prehospital — 55 EMS agencies, 10 North American communities (ROC network)"],
["Period", "May 7, 2012 – October 25, 2015"],
["Funding", "NHLBI, Canadian Institutes of Health Research; Baxter provided drugs at no cost"],
["Analysis", "Per-protocol (primary) + Intention-to-treat (secondary)"],
["Sample Size", "3,026 per-protocol (974 amiodarone / 993 lidocaine / 1,059 placebo)"],
["Power", "90% power to detect 6.3 pp absolute difference in survival (amiodarone vs. placebo)"],
["Blinding", "Patients, EMS, investigators, hospital providers — all blinded to assignment"],
];
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const row = i % 4;
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// ─── SLIDE 6 — FLOW DIAGRAM ───────────────────────────────────────
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lightSlide(s);
addTag(s, "Population Flow", 0.5, 0.4);
s.addText("Patient Enrollment & Allocation", {
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fontSize: 30, bold: true, color: C.navy,
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s.addShape(pres.ShapeType.rect, { x: 0.5, y: 1.5, w: 5.0, h: 0.05, fill: { color: C.teal }, line: { type: "none" } });
// Flow boxes
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slide.addText(text, { x, y, w, h, fontSize: fs || 12, color: tc, align: "center", valign: "middle", bold: true });
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const arrow = (slide, x, y, h) => {
slide.addShape(pres.ShapeType.rect, { x: x - 0.03, y, w: 0.06, h, fill: { color: C.teal }, line: { type: "none" } });
slide.addShape(pres.ShapeType.triangle, { x: x - 0.15, y: y + h - 0.01, w: 0.3, h: 0.2, fill: { color: C.teal }, line: { type: "none" } });
};
// Top box
box(s, 4.0, 1.7, 5.3, 0.65, "37,889 OHCA Patients Screened", C.navy, C.white, 13);
arrow(s, 6.65, 2.35, 0.4);
box(s, 4.0, 2.75, 5.3, 0.65, "7,051 (18.6%) Potentially Eligible\n(Shock-refractory VF/pVT)", "E8F4FD", C.navy, 12);
arrow(s, 6.65, 3.4, 0.4);
box(s, 4.0, 3.8, 5.3, 0.65, "4,667 Randomized\n(Kit opened by EMS)", C.teal, C.white, 12);
arrow(s, 6.65, 4.45, 0.35);
box(s, 4.0, 4.8, 5.3, 0.55, "4,653 Intention-to-Treat Population", "E8F4FD", C.navy, 11);
arrow(s, 6.65, 5.35, 0.35);
// Three arms
box(s, 0.4, 5.7, 3.5, 0.75, "AMIODARONE\nn = 974", C.navy, C.amber, 12);
box(s, 4.0, 5.7, 3.5, 0.75, "LIDOCAINE\nn = 993", C.navy, C.white, 12);
box(s, 7.6, 5.7, 3.5, 0.75, "PLACEBO\nn = 1,059", C.navy, C.white, 12);
// Connector lines from ITT box to three arms
s.addShape(pres.ShapeType.rect, { x: 0.5, y: 5.68, w: 12.1, h: 0.04, fill: { color: C.teal }, line: { type: "none" } });
// Side note
s.addText("30,838 (81.4%) ineligible — did not have shock-refractory VF/pVT, no vascular access, or prior antiarrhythmic use", {
x: 0.3, y: 6.6, w: 12.7, h: 0.45,
fontSize: 10.5, italic: true, color: C.midGray, align: "center",
});
}
// ─── SLIDE 7 — PRIMARY RESULTS ───────────────────────────────────
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const s = pres.addSlide();
darkSlide(s);
addTag(s, "Primary Results", 0.5, 0.3);
s.addText("Survival to Hospital Discharge", {
x: 0.5, y: 0.75, w: 12.0, h: 0.65,
fontSize: 32, bold: true, color: C.white,
});
s.addShape(pres.ShapeType.rect, { x: 0.5, y: 1.38, w: 5.0, h: 0.05, fill: { color: C.amber }, line: { type: "none" } });
// Three big number boxes
const arms = [
{ drug: "AMIODARONE", n: "974", pct: "24.4%", n_surv: "237", col: C.amber },
{ drug: "LIDOCAINE", n: "993", pct: "23.7%", n_surv: "233", col: "5BA4CF" },
{ drug: "PLACEBO", n: "1,059", pct: "21.0%", n_surv: "222", col: "8899A6" },
];
arms.forEach((arm, i) => {
const x = 0.4 + i * 4.3;
s.addShape(pres.ShapeType.rect, { x, y: 1.6, w: 3.9, h: 2.6, fill: { color: C.slate }, line: { color: arm.col, pt: 2 } });
s.addText(arm.drug, { x, y: 1.68, w: 3.9, h: 0.4, fontSize: 11, bold: true, color: arm.col, align: "center", charSpacing: 2 });
s.addText(arm.pct, { x, y: 2.1, w: 3.9, h: 1.0, fontSize: 52, bold: true, color: arm.col, align: "center" });
s.addText(`${arm.n_surv} / ${arm.n} survived`, { x, y: 3.1, w: 3.9, h: 0.45, fontSize: 12, color: C.white, align: "center" });
s.addText(`n = ${arm.n}`, { x, y: 3.6, w: 3.9, h: 0.4, fontSize: 11, color: "8899A6", align: "center", italic: true });
});
// Comparisons table
s.addShape(pres.ShapeType.rect, { x: 0.4, y: 4.45, w: 12.5, h: 0.38, fill: { color: C.slate }, line: { type: "none" } });
s.addText("Comparison", { x: 0.5, y: 4.45, w: 3.5, h: 0.38, fontSize: 11, bold: true, color: C.teal, valign: "middle" });
s.addText("Absolute Risk Difference", { x: 4.0, y: 4.45, w: 4.5, h: 0.38, fontSize: 11, bold: true, color: C.teal, valign: "middle" });
s.addText("95% CI", { x: 8.5, y: 4.45, w: 2.5, h: 0.38, fontSize: 11, bold: true, color: C.teal, valign: "middle" });
s.addText("P-value", { x: 11.0, y: 4.45, w: 1.8, h: 0.38, fontSize: 11, bold: true, color: C.teal, valign: "middle" });
const rows = [
["Amiodarone vs. Placebo", "+3.2 pp", "−0.4 to +7.0", "0.08 (NS)"],
["Lidocaine vs. Placebo", "+2.6 pp", "−1.0 to +6.3", "0.16 (NS)"],
["Amiodarone vs. Lidocaine", "+0.7 pp", "−3.2 to +4.7", "0.70 (NS)"],
];
rows.forEach((row, i) => {
const y = 4.92 + i * 0.55;
const bg = i % 2 === 0 ? "1E3A5F" : C.navy;
s.addShape(pres.ShapeType.rect, { x: 0.4, y, w: 12.5, h: 0.52, fill: { color: bg }, line: { type: "none" } });
s.addText(row[0], { x: 0.5, y, w: 3.5, h: 0.52, fontSize: 11.5, color: C.white, valign: "middle" });
s.addText(row[1], { x: 4.0, y, w: 4.5, h: 0.52, fontSize: 11.5, color: i === 0 ? C.amber : C.white, valign: "middle", bold: i === 0 });
s.addText(row[2], { x: 8.5, y, w: 2.5, h: 0.52, fontSize: 11.5, color: C.white, valign: "middle" });
s.addText(row[3], { x: 11.0, y, w: 1.8, h: 0.52, fontSize: 11.5, color: C.red, valign: "middle", bold: true });
});
}
// ─── SLIDE 8 — SECONDARY & SUBGROUP RESULTS ──────────────────────
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lightSlide(s);
addTag(s, "Secondary & Subgroup Results", 0.5, 0.4);
s.addText("Neurologic Outcome & Subgroup Analysis", {
x: 0.5, y: 0.85, w: 12.0, h: 0.65,
fontSize: 28, bold: true, color: C.navy,
});
s.addShape(pres.ShapeType.rect, { x: 0.5, y: 1.5, w: 5.5, h: 0.05, fill: { color: C.teal }, line: { type: "none" } });
// Secondary outcome box
s.addShape(pres.ShapeType.rect, { x: 0.5, y: 1.7, w: 6.0, h: 2.7, fill: { color: C.navy }, line: { type: "none" } });
s.addText("SECONDARY OUTCOME\nFavorable Neurologic Status (mRS ≤3)", { x: 0.6, y: 1.8, w: 5.8, h: 0.7, fontSize: 12, bold: true, color: C.amber, lineSpacingMultiple: 1.3 });
const neuro = [
{ label: "Amiodarone", val: "18.8%", sub: "182/967" },
{ label: "Lidocaine", val: "17.5%", sub: "172/984" },
{ label: "Placebo", val: "16.6%", sub: "175/1,053" },
];
neuro.forEach((n, i) => {
s.addText(n.label, { x: 0.65, y: 2.57 + i * 0.57, w: 2.0, h: 0.35, fontSize: 11.5, color: C.white });
s.addShape(pres.ShapeType.rect, { x: 2.65, y: 2.63 + i * 0.57, w: 2.5, h: 0.22, fill: { color: C.teal }, line: { type: "none" } });
s.addText(n.val, { x: 5.2, y: 2.57 + i * 0.57, w: 1.0, h: 0.35, fontSize: 11.5, color: C.amber, bold: true });
});
s.addText("No significant differences (all p>0.05)", {
x: 0.6, y: 3.85, w: 5.8, h: 0.38, fontSize: 12, color: "8899A6", italic: true,
});
// Subgroup box
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// ─── SLIDE 9 — ADVERSE EVENTS ─────────────────────────────────────
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// ─── SLIDE 10 — CRITICAL APPRAISAL ───────────────────────────────
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// ─── SLIDE 11 — CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS ────────────────────────────
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// ─── SLIDE 12 — SUMMARY / CONCLUSION ─────────────────────────────
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// ─── SLIDE 13 — DISCUSSION PROMPTS ───────────────────────────────
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// ─── WRITE FILE ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
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cd /home/daytona/workspace/alps-journal-club && node build.js 2>&1
ls -lh /home/daytona/workspace/alps-journal-club/ALPS_Trial_Journal_Club.pptx
ALPS Trial Journal Club
Presentation · PPTX
| Slide | Content |
|---|---|
| 1 | Title — ALPS Trial full citation, ROC consortium |
| 2 | Agenda — 6 topic cards |
| 3 | Background — Why antiarrhythmics in OHCA, prior evidence gap |
| 4 | PICO Framework — Full P/I/C/O breakdown in a 4-panel layout |
| 5 | Study Design & Methods — Design, setting, blinding, power, sample size |
| 6 | Enrollment Flow — Screening funnel (37,889 → 3,026 per-protocol) |
| 7 | Primary Results — Survival rates with comparison table (ARD, 95% CI, p-values) |
| 8 | Secondary & Subgroup — Neurologic outcome + witnessed arrest interaction |
| 9 | Adverse Events — Full safety table with pacing signal highlighted |
| 10 | Critical Appraisal — Strengths vs limitations + bias assessment row |
| 11 | Clinical Implications — 6 evidence-based practice takeaways |
| 12 | Summary — 5 take-home messages |
| 13 | Discussion Questions — 6 prompts for journal club debate |
just give the material of the ppt here in text format
| # | Topic | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Background & Clinical Context | Why do we give antiarrhythmics in OHCA? |
| 02 | PICO Framework | Population · Intervention · Comparison · Outcome |
| 03 | Study Design & Methods | RCT design, randomization, blinding, endpoints |
| 04 | Results | Primary, secondary, subgroup, mechanistic outcomes |
| 05 | Critical Appraisal | Strengths, limitations, bias assessment |
| 06 | Clinical Implications | What should change at the bedside? |
300,000+ OHCA deaths per year in North America
| Parameter | Detail |
|---|---|
| Design | Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, 3-Arm Trial |
| Setting | Prehospital — 55 EMS agencies, 10 North American communities (ROC network) |
| Period | May 7, 2012 – October 25, 2015 |
| Funding | NHLBI, Canadian Institutes of Health Research; Baxter provided drugs at no cost |
| Analysis | Per-protocol (primary) + Intention-to-treat (secondary) |
| Sample Size | 3,026 per-protocol (974 amiodarone / 993 lidocaine / 1,059 placebo) |
| Power | 90% power to detect 6.3 percentage point absolute difference in survival (amiodarone vs. placebo) |
| Blinding | Patients, EMS providers, investigators, hospital care providers — all blinded to assignment |
37,889 OHCA Patients Screened
↓
7,051 (18.6%) Potentially Eligible — shock-refractory VF/pVT
↓
4,667 Randomized (EMS kit opened)
↓
4,653 Intention-to-Treat Population
↓
┌──────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │ │
AMIODARONE LIDOCAINE PLACEBO
n = 974 n = 993 n = 1,059
(per-protocol) (per-protocol) (per-protocol)
| Group | Survived | Survival Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Amiodarone (n=974) | 237 | 24.4% |
| Lidocaine (n=993) | 233 | 23.7% |
| Placebo (n=1,059) | 222 | 21.0% |
| Comparison | Absolute Risk Difference | 95% CI | P-value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amiodarone vs. Placebo | +3.2 pp | −0.4 to +7.0 | 0.08 (NS) |
| Lidocaine vs. Placebo | +2.6 pp | −1.0 to +6.3 | 0.16 (NS) |
| Amiodarone vs. Lidocaine | +0.7 pp | −3.2 to +4.7 | 0.70 (NS) |
| Group | Rate |
|---|---|
| Amiodarone | 18.8% (182/967) |
| Lidocaine | 17.5% (172/984) |
| Placebo | 16.6% (175/1,053) |
| Outcome | Finding |
|---|---|
| Hospital Admission | Amio 45.7% / Lido 47.0% vs Placebo 39.7% (p<0.001) |
| ROSC at ED Arrival | Lidocaine significantly higher vs placebo (p = 0.01) |
| Shocks after drug | Fewer in Amio & Lido vs Placebo (p < 0.001) |
| Temporary Pacing ⚠ | Amio 4.9% vs Lido 3.2% vs Placebo 2.7% (p = 0.02) |
| Adverse Event | Amiodarone (n=974) | Lidocaine (n=993) | Placebo (n=1,059) | P-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anaphylaxis | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| Thrombophlebitis (24 hr) | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.61 |
| Clinical Seizure (24 hr) | 3.2% | 5.1% | 3.7% | 0.07 |
| Temporary Cardiac Pacing ⚠ | 4.9% | 3.2% | 2.7% | 0.02 |
| Any serious adverse event | 1.1% | 1.2% | 0.4% | 0.09 |
| Any adverse event (24 hr) | 8.3% | 8.5% | 6.5% | 0.18 |
| Death before discharge | 75.3% | 75.7% | 78.8% | 0.16 |
| Domain | Risk |
|---|---|
| Selection bias | Low |
| Performance bias | Low (double-blind) |
| Detection bias | Low |
| Attrition bias | Low (99.5% of outcomes obtained) |
| Reporting bias | Low |