Ventricular fibrillation median frequency may not be useful for monitoring during cardiac arrest treated with endothelin-1 or epinephrine

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1787-1793

  Holzer, Michael ^a   Behringer, Wilhelm ^a   Sterz, Fritz ^a   Kofler, Julia ^a   Oschatz, Elisabeth ^a   Schuster, Ernst ^b   Laggner, Anton N ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ENDOTHELIN 1; KETAMINE; PANCURONIUM; PIRITRAMIDE; THIOPENTAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CIRCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DEFIBRILLATION; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT MONITORING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SPECTROSCOPY; SWINE;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ANIMALS; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIN-1; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SWINE; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 9244245266     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000138421.74434.E3     Document Type: Article

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