Effect of timing and duration of a single chest compression pause on short-term survival following prolonged ventricular fibrillation

Resuscitation

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 458-462

  Walcott, Gregory P ^a   Melnick, Sharon B ^a,b   Walker, Robert G ^b   Banville, Isabelle ^b   Chapman, Fred W ^b   Killingsworth, Cheryl R ^a   Ideker, Raymond E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b Physio Control Inc A Division of Medtronic   (United States)

Author keywords

Defibrillation; Pause; Resuscitation; Sudden cardiac death

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPRESSION THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL RATE; SWINE; THORAX COMPRESSION; TIME; TREATMENT DURATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART MASSAGE; HEART RATE; MALE; PERIODICITY; SWINE; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 61449228215     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2008.11.012     Document Type: Article

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