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. 2014 May 8;146(4):899–907. doi: 10.1378/chest.13-3028

TABLE 3 ] .

Prehospital Medication Use in Aspirators vs Nonaspirators

Medication Use Any Aspiration (n = 212) No Aspiration (n = 5,372) P Value
Prehospital medications, % (No. = 5,584)
 Proton pump inhibitor 29 23 .045
 H2 antagonist 4 5 .64
 ACE inhibitor 19 20 .73
 ARB 5 6 .76
 Inhaled β-agonist 12 14 .61
 Inhaled steroids 6 9 .18
 Systemic steroids 6 8 .20
 Statin 21 25 .20
 Aspirin 25 27 .64
 Amiodarone 2 0.8 .11
 Oral hypoglycemic 10 11 .82
 Insulin 9 10 .73
Other medications, % (No. = 4,609)
 Benzodiazepines 11 12 .91
 Opiates 18 20 .53
 Antipsychotics 9 4 .0090
 Metoclopramide 3 1 .13
 Macrolide 0 1 .18
 ACE inhibitor 19 20 .73
 β-Blocker 26 26 .99

Prehospital medications were obtained systematically on all enrolled patients per protocol. Other medications was a manually extracted list of other medications submitted by centers. ACE = angiotensin-converting enzyme; ARB = angiotensin receptor blocker; H2 = histamine-2.