These evidence based guidelines published in the CJEM are intended to help guide the Emergency Medicine practitioner to the most effective and safest utilization of these medications. Hopefully, ongoing research trials will provide future high level evidence with which to edit and advance these guidelines.
They were developed by the Critical Care Practice Committee of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians who conducted an intensive literature search and guideline development process to help create an evidence based approach for use of these agents in the stabilization of shock.
