Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 4 , Pages 500-501 , April 2010

Osborn waves and incessant ventricular fibrillation during therapeutic hypothermia

Received 12 December 2009 ,Accepted 16 December 2009.

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PII: S0300-9572(09)00665-0

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.12.011

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