Cath Lab Code blue: 5 mg IC stacked epi? anyone experience this order?

Got called to cathlab today for cardiac arrest during surgery. One of the things the cardiologist wanted was "5 mg stacked epi" given intracardiac. I have had docs want to give epinephrine this route before when they were in surgery but not 5 mg. Has anyone else been asked to do this? One of the ED docs went with me and he'd never heard of "stacked epi" before. When I got back to the ED I asked another doc and he said that it's code for " I'm the cardiologist and will do whatever the... Read more
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