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NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
Volume 387, Issue 21, Pages 1995-1996Publisher
MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe2213562
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Treatment of patients in ventricular fibrillation is challenging, and despite advanced cardiac life support interventions, some patients remain in refractory ventricular fibrillation, resulting in difficulties in treatment.
Treatment of patients in ventricular fibrillation is challenging. Despite heroic efforts, including performance of high-quality chest compressions with minimal interruptions, placement of advanced airways, multiple standard defibrillation attempts, and other interventions for advanced cardiac life support, some patients will remain in refractory ventricular fibrillation.(1,2) Unfortunately, this results in a major gap in care, with emergency care personnel left with few therapeutic options, coupled with a decreasing likelihood of successful resuscitation with increasing numbers of defibrillation attempts. Recently, modified strategies for performing defibrillation in the context of refractory ventricular fibrillation have been proposed,(3) including double sequential external defibrillation (DSED), in which . . .
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