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From: Cold aortic flush after ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest reduces inflammatory reaction but not neuronal loss in the pig cerebral cortex

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Group assignment. ECPR groups with 13 (in red), 15, or 17 min of cardiac arrest (CA), EPR + CC group with 15 min of CA (in blue) receiving 150 ml/kg ice cold saline into the thoracic aorta and 50 ml/kg into the femoral artery. All groups were treated with 20 min of cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) accompanied by epinephrin (Epi) and vasopressin (Vas) injections. Thereafter, cardio-pulmonary bypass (CPB) was activated, countershocks were applied and, following restoration of spontaneous circulation, CPB was discontinued. Animals were kept at a target temperature of 34.5 °C for 16 h and survived for nine days.

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