Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 42, Issue 2 , Pages 230-241, August 2003

Dynamic nature of electrocardiographic waveform predicts rescue shock outcome in porcine ventricular fibrillation☆☆☆*

Presented as an abstract based on preliminary data at the National Association of EMS Physicians annual meeting, Fort Myers, FL, January 2001.

Department of Emergency Medicine, Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

Received 9 April 2002; received in revised form 12 October 2002, 15 November 2002, 8 January 2003 and 28 January 2003; accepted 31 January 2003.

Address for correspondence: James J. Menegazzi, PhD, Department of Emergency Medicine, Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh, 230 McKee Place, Suite 400, Pittsburgh, PA 15213; 412-647-3078, fax: 412-647-1111;,E-mail menegazz+@pitt.edu.

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☆ Supported by the Pittsburgh Emergency Medicine Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA, and the EMF/Genentech Center of Excellence Award from the Emergency Medicine Foundation, Dallas, TX.

☆☆ Reprints not available from the authors.

* Author contributions: All authors conceived and designed the trial. CWC and JJM obtained research funding. CBL, KCF, and JJM conducted the trial and data collection. CBL, MH, LDS, CWC, and JJM analyzed the data. MH provided statistical advice. CBL and CWC drafted the manuscript. All authors contributed to revision. CBL takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.

PII: S0196-0644(03)00391-3

doi:10.1067/mem.2003.264

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 42, Issue 2 , Pages 230-241, August 2003

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