The Mechanism of Ventricular Fibrillation and Cardiac Arrest During Surgery

Cardiac Arrest and Cardiac Resuscitation in the Aged

“…This rise reaches its peak in the immediate posthypercapneic period, at the end of anesthesia when the patient breathes room air. The extracellular potassium concentration soon returns to a normal level as the excess potassium is translocated into body tissue (10, 11).…”