| pubmed-article:8874312 | pubmed:abstractText | Patients suffering out-of-hospital cardiac arrest have various degrees of acidemia when cardiopulmonary resuscitation is initiated. Myocardial hypercarbia, rather than decreases in myocardial pH, may determine cardiac resuscitability. Accordingly, we questioned whether different degrees of acidemia accompanying cardiac arrest affect cardiac resuscitability. We evaluated the effect of different degrees of extramyocardial acidosis on cardiac performance and resuscitability after ventricular fibrillation using isolated, perfused, rat hearts. | lld:pubmed |
