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Intensive Care Medicine Experimental
Fig. 4 | Intensive Care Medicine Experimental

Fig. 4

From: Intravenous calcium as a pressor in a swine model of hypoxic pseudo-pulseless electrical mechanical activity—a preliminary report

Fig. 4

This histogram of the change in mean aortic pressure was calculated by subtracting the mean aortic pressure 36-40 s before the calcium bolus from the mean aortic pressure 36-40 s after the calcium bolus. While most of these interventions are associated with a positive change in mean aortic pressure, in four experiments, the mean aortic pressure decreased. In these experiments, the animal was decompensating rapidly, and the continuing drop in blood pressure was larger than the benefit of the calcium bolus

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