Is this really a slang term?. I've never seen this term before. I'm familar with this term, but I don't use it.. I occassionally use this term.. I use this term all the time!.
March 11, 2015. Epinephrine is widely used and recommended by Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), but its effectiveness in neurologic outcomes has never been truly established.
The latter point is unfortunate, as many of us who follow the emergency resuscitation literature were expecting...hoping...that the AHA would take a step away from its longstanding recommendation regarding routine use of epinephrine (EPI) in patients with cardiac arrest.