[anitil]

> These findings do not support routine administration of sodium bicarbonate for patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest.

Huh, I'd heard of this as an intervention and just assumed it worked

[antonvs]

The logic for bicarb use here was basically the same as for injecting bleach to cure an infection: it works in a test tube. There was no clinical evidence for it.

In fact the evidence against its use goes back to at least 1976:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1554/