Why the study?
Does the occurrence of repetitive ventricular responses elicited by the VES technique predict ventricular vulnerability to fibrillation in dogs?
Population
Normal dogs, dogs with acute infarction, and dogs with chronic infarction
Comparison
Ventricular extrasystole (VES) technique vs Ventricular fibrillation threshold (VFT) technique
Design
Preclinical
Authors
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Repetitive VES responses do not predict VF vulnerability in dogs; leaves open their clinical predictive value.
Does the occurrence of repetitive ventricular responses elicited by the VES technique predict ventricular vulnerability to fibrillation in dogs?
The incidence of VES technique-induced repetitive responses is not a reliable predictor of ventricular vulnerability to fibrillation in dogs, though responses originating at the infarct zone may indicate vulnerability.
Jones et al. (1983) studied this question.
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