Left-sided vagus nerve stimulation improves cardiopulmonary resuscitation outcomes in rats as effectively as right-sided vagus nerve stimulation

• Published in: World journal of emergency medicine Vol. 12; no. 4; pp. 309 - 316
• Main Authors: Shao, Wei-jing, Shu, Ting-ting, Xu, Shuang, Liang, Li-cai, Grange, Jehane Michael Le, Zhou, Yu-ran, Huang, He, Cai, Yu, Zhang, Qing, Sun, Peng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hangzhou World Journal of Emergency Medicine 01.01.2021; World Journal of Emergency Medicine (WJEM); Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine
• Subjects: Biotechnology; Cardiac arrest; Cardiac arrhythmia; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; CPR; CPR (First aid); Electrocardiography; Experiments; Heart failure; Heart rate; Ischemia; Medical prognosis; Original; Tumor necrosis factor-TNF; Vagus nerve; Variance analysis; Ventilators; China; United States > US

BACKGROUND: Our group previously reported that right-sided vagus nerve stimulation (RVNS) significantly improved outcomes after cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in a rat model of cardiac arrest (CA). However, whether left-sided vagus nerve stimulation (LVNS) could achieve the same effect as RVNS...