Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 4 , Pages 477-480 , April 2010

Transthoracic defibrillation potential gradients in a closed chest porcine model of prolonged spontaneous and electrically induced ventricular fibrillation

  • James T. Niemann

      Affiliations

    • The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, 1000 West Carson Street, Box 21, Torrance, CA 90509, United States. Tel.: +1 310 222 3503; fax: +1 310 782 1763.
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  • John P. Rosborough

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, United States
    • ,
  • Scott T. Youngquist

      Affiliations

    • The Department of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
    • ,
  • Atman P. Shah

      Affiliations

    • The Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Received 3 October 2009 ,Revised 8 December 2009 ,Accepted 23 December 2009.

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☆ A Spanish translated version of the abstract of this article appears as Appendix in the final online version at doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.12.027.

PII: S0300-9572(10)00014-6

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.12.027

Resuscitation
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