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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acad Emerg Med. 2012 May;19(5):504–509. doi: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2012.01337.x

Table 2.

Rate of respiratory decline of study groups

Parameters Group 1
Control
Group 2
IFE at 5
minutes
Group 3
IFE at 20
minutes
Rate of respiratory decline, mean −2.65 −2.295 −0.795
Standard deviation ±1.35 ±0.58 ±0.55
P value - 0.661 0.0179

Rate of respiratory decline was calculated by calculating a constant for each animal’s rate of respiratory decline in breaths per minute using a best-fit curve of breaths per minute vs. time.