Transthoracic impedance does not decrease with rapidly repeated countershocks in a swine cardiac arrest model

Resuscitation

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 91-95

  Niemann, James T ^a   Garner, Daniel ^a   Lewis, Roger J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Defibrillation; Impedance; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; DISEASE MODEL; EDEMA; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; HEART ARREST; HEART MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HYPEREMIA; IMPEDANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SINUS RHYTHM; SOFT TISSUE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWINE; WAVEFORM;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; HEART ARREST; SWINE; THORAX; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0037221245     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9572(02)00292-7     Document Type: Article

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