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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2026

Comparative Effectiveness of Amiodarone Versus Lidocaine as Antiarrhythmic Therapy for Cardiac Arrest with Shockable Rhythms: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Faizan Ahmed, Ayesha Zulfiqar, Tooba Nihal, Maliha Khalid, M Rafiqul Islam, Fnu Abubakar, Noor Ul Ain Saleem, Haris Bin Tahir, Hafsa Arshad Azam Raja, Areej Dar and 8 more

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors.

Faizan AhmedDepartment of Internal Medicine, Hackensack Meridian Health, Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune, NJ 07753, USA.
Ayesha ZulfiqarDepartment of Internal Medicine, Dow University of Health and Sciences, Karachi 74200, Pakistan.
Tooba NihalDepartment of Internal Medicine, Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore 54550, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0003-4758-689X
Maliha KhalidDepartment of Internal Medicine, Jinnah Sindh Medical University, Karachi 75500, Pakistan.
M Rafiqul IslamDepartment of Internal Medicine, Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital, Dhaka 1207, Bangladesh.ORCID 0009-0004-4038-9580
Fnu AbubakarDepartment of Internal Medicine, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD 57107, USA.ORCID 0009-0001-9877-9424
Noor Ul Ain SaleemDepartment of Internal Medicine, FMH College of Medicine and Dentistry, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.ORCID 0009-0005-2828-4863
Haris Bin TahirDepartment of Internal Medicine, Lahore General Hospital, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.ORCID 0009-0004-7057-9975
Hafsa Arshad Azam RajaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Rawalpindi Medical University, Rawalpindi 46000, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0003-0794-7013
Areej DarDepartment of Internal Medicine, Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan Medical and Dental College, Lahore 54600, Pakistan.ORCID 0009-0005-8931-8772
Omar KamelDepartment of Physical Therapy, South Valley University, Qena 83523, Egypt.
Faseeh HaiderDepartment of Internal Medicine, Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore 54550, Pakistan.
Saman RaufDepartment of Internal Medicine, Fatima Jinnah Medical University, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.ORCID 0009-0006-9672-3589
Wania AyubSchool of Medicine, St. George's University, St. George's P.O. Box 7, Grenada.ORCID 0009-0000-6993-140X
Khush DadhaniaDepartment of Cardiology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX 79430, USA.
Mobeen Zaka HaiderDivision of Cardiology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3445-0275
Yasar SattarDepartment of Interventional Cardiology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA.
Amro TahaDivision of Cardiology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6836-4490

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

amiodaroneantiarrhythmic therapycardiac arrestlidocaineshockable rhythms

Identifiers

PMID42796046
PMCPMC13607829

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