Epinephrine, vasopressin, and nitroglycerin improve neurologic outcome in porcine asphyxial cardiac arrest

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1549-1554

  Varvarousi, Giolanda ^a   Goulas, Sotirios ^a   Agrogiannis, Georgios ^a   Valsamakis, Nikolaos ^a   Iliopoulos, Dimitrios ^a   Perrea, Despina ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^b   Papadimitriou, Lila ^a   Xanthos, Theodoros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPHYXIA; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HEART ARREST; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESUSCITATION; RETURN OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SWINE; TRACHEA OBSTRUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84869462096     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: 15328171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2012.01.008     Document Type: Article

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