Resuscitation
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Resuscitation
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Comment Letter Comparative Study
Endothelin-1 elevates regional cerebral perfusion during prolonged ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest in pigs.
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Letter Case Reports
Transient right bundle branch block unmasking anterior myocardial infarction.
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Comparative Study
Experience with ketamine and sodium pentobarbital as anesthetics in a rat model of cardiac arrest and resuscitation.
We review 7 years experience with the chest compression model of cardiac arrest and resuscitation, comparing two different anesthetics. Ketamine stimulates cardiac function and only mildly depresses respiration; of the two it provides easier resuscitation. ⋯ Sodium pentobarbital mildly depresses brain protein synthesis, but depresses both cardiac and respiratory function, making resuscitation more difficult. Use of alternate chest/abdominal pumping (Babbs resuscitation technique), with judicious use of intra-cardiac epinephrine (adrenaline), made resuscitation reliable under sodium pentobarbital as well.