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.
Current practice guidelines recommend the use. of norepinephrine or dopamine as first-line agents to cor-. rect hypotension in septic shock [3].However, new research. suggests that reexamination of these guidelines is necessary.