Chinese Med J Peking
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Chinese Med J Peking · Mar 2002
Pump models assessed by transesophageal echocardiography during cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Transesophageal echocardiography was performed during closed-chest cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in in-hospital cardiac arrest to further explore the hemodynamic mechanism of CPR. ⋯ These observations favor the cardiac pump theory as the predominant hemodynamic mechanism of forward blood flow during CPR in human beings.