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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Main Authors: Zuercher, Mathias, Ewy, Gordon, Hilwig, Ronald, Sanders, Arthur, Otto, Charles, Berg, Robert, Kern, Karl
Other Authors: University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center, Tucson, AZ, USA
Language:en
Published: BioMed Central 2010
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