Therapeutic target
Restoration of a sufficient circulation
Therapy recommendations
- Ventricular flutter, like ventricular fibrillation, requires immediate defibrillation (shock generator; treatment method for the life-threatening arrhythmia).
- Adrenaline (sympathomimetic).
- Amiodarone (antiarrhythmic drug; 300 mg i.v. after third unsuccessful defibrillation; evidence-based) or lidocaine (100 mg i.v.)
- In Adams-Stokes syndrome, immediate resuscitation and defibrillation.
- See also under “Further therapy.”
