Continued breathing followed by gasping or apnea in a swine model of ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest
BACKGROUND:Continued breathing following ventricular fibrillation has here-to-fore not been described.METHODS:We analyzed the spontaneous ventilatory activity during the first several minutes of ventricular fibrillation (VF) in our isoflurane anesthesized swine model of out-of-hospital cardiac arres...
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BioMed Central
2010
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Online Access: | Zuercher et al. BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2010, 10:36 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2261/10/36 http://hdl.handle.net/10150/610352 http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/610352 |