Resuscitation After Prolonged Ventricular Fibrillation With Use of Monophasic and Biphasic Waveform Pulses for External Defibrillation

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Authors

Charles T. Leng · Southwestern Vermont Health Care

Norman A. Paradis · Southwestern Vermont Health Care

Hugh Calkins · Southwestern Vermont Health Care

Ronald D. Berger · Southwestern Vermont Health Care

Albert C. Lardo · Southwestern Vermont Health Care

Kenneth C. Rent · Southwestern Vermont Health Care

Henry R. Halperin

Abstract

External defibrillation is more efficacious with BP countershocks than with MP countershocks. The lower defibrillation thresholds and shorter resuscitation times associated with BP waveform defibrillation may improve survival after prolonged VF arrest.

Topics & Keywords

Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: Circulation

Volume 101, Issue 25, pp. 2968-2974

DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.101.25.2968

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