Table 1.

Groups characteristics during cardiopulmonary resuscitation, including the rate of successful resuscitation, the time to resumption of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) and the total amount of epinephrine administered throughout the protocol.

	n	Rate of successfull resuscitation	ROSC (min)	Epinephrine dose (μg/kg)
Control 5′	10	10/10	2.4±0.3	207±58
H-TLV 5′	10	10/10	2.3±0.3	174±81
Control 10′	15	10/15	4.8±0.4	684±118
H-TLV 10′	15	10/15	4.2±0.8	128±128 *
Saline 10′	10	7/10	3.7±0.7	430±126
N-TLV 10′	10	7/10	3.7±0.4	509±64

^*p<0.05 vs corresponding control value; TLV, total liquid ventilation; H-TLV, hypothermic TLV; N-TLV, normothermic TLV; Saline, hypothermia induced by intravenous administration of cold saline combined to external cooling.