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First Report of Survival in Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation After Dual-Axis Defibrillation and Esmolol Administration

There is a subset of patients who suffer a witnessed ventricular fibrillation (VF) arrest and despite receiving reasonable care with medications (epinephrine and amiodarone) and multiple defibrillations (3+ attempts at 200 joules of biphasic current) remain in refractory VF (RVF), also known as elec...

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Autores principales: Boehm, Kevin M., Keyes, Daniel C., Mader, Laura E, Moccia, J. Michelle
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5102605/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27833686
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2016.8.30351

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