J T Niemann

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Affiliation: University of California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Transthoracic impedance does not decrease with rapidly repeated countershocks in a swine cardiac arrest model
    James T Niemann
    Department of Emergency Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Box 21, 1000 West Carson Street, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
    Resuscitation 56:91-5. 2003
  2. ncbi Hyperkalemia and ionized hypocalcemia during cardiac arrest and resuscitation: possible culprits for postcountershock arrhythmias?
    J T Niemann
    UCLA School of Medicine, and the Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
    Ann Emerg Med 34:1-7. 1999
  3. ncbi Immediate countershock versus cardiopulmonary resuscitation before countershock in a 5-minute swine model of ventricular fibrillation arrest
    J T Niemann
    Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
    Ann Emerg Med 36:543-6. 2000
  4. ncbi Monophasic versus biphasic transthoracic countershock after prolonged ventricular fibrillation in a swine model
    J T Niemann
    UCLA School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California 90509, USA
    J Am Coll Cardiol 36:932-8. 2000
  5. ncbi Hemodynamic effects of repeated doses of epinephrine after prolonged cardiac arrest and CPR: preliminary observations in an animal model
    C B Cairns
    Harbor UCLA Medical Center, The Department of Emergency Medicine, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
    Resuscitation 36:181-5. 1998
  6. ncbi Outcome of out-of-hospital postcountershock asystole and pulseless electrical activity versus primary asystole and pulseless electrical activity
    J T Niemann
    UCLA School of Medicine, The Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
    Crit Care Med 29:2366-70. 2001
  7. ncbi Transthoracic monophasic and biphasic defibrillation in a swine model: a comparison of efficacy, ST segment changes, and postshock hemodynamics
    J T Niemann
    The Department of Emergency Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, 1000 West Carson Street, Box 21, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
    Resuscitation 47:51-8. 2000
  8. ncbi The Utstein template and the effect of in-hospital decisions: the impact of do-not-attempt resuscitation status on survival to discharge statistics
    J T Niemann
    Department of Emergency Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Box 21, 1000 West Carson Street, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
    Resuscitation 51:233-7. 2001
  9. ncbi Post-resuscitation plasma catecholamines after prolonged arrest in a swine model
    James T Niemann
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, 1000 West Carson Street, Box 21, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
    Resuscitation 65:97-101. 2005
  10. ncbi Intracardiac voltage gradients during transthoracic defibrillation: implications for postshock myocardial injury
    James T Niemann
    Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, 1000 West Carson Street, Box 21, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
    Acad Emerg Med 12:99-105. 2005

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Publications27

  1. ncbi Transthoracic impedance does not decrease with rapidly repeated countershocks in a swine cardiac arrest model
    James T Niemann
    Department of Emergency Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Box 21, 1000 West Carson Street, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
    Resuscitation 56:91-5. 2003
    ..The purpose of this study was to evaluate changes in transthoracic impedance with repeated defibrillation shocks in an animal model of cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation (VF)...
  2. ncbi Hyperkalemia and ionized hypocalcemia during cardiac arrest and resuscitation: possible culprits for postcountershock arrhythmias?
    J T Niemann
    UCLA School of Medicine, and the Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
    Ann Emerg Med 34:1-7. 1999
    ..The purpose of this study was to evaluate changes in serum potassium and free calcium homeostasis during cardiac arrest and advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) interventions...
  3. ncbi Immediate countershock versus cardiopulmonary resuscitation before countershock in a 5-minute swine model of ventricular fibrillation arrest
    J T Niemann
    Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
    Ann Emerg Med 36:543-6. 2000
    ..The purpose of this study was to compare countershock and cardiac resuscitation outcome between immediate countershock of VF of 5-minute duration and CPR without drug therapy before countershock in a swine model...
  4. ncbi Monophasic versus biphasic transthoracic countershock after prolonged ventricular fibrillation in a swine model
    J T Niemann
    UCLA School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California 90509, USA
    J Am Coll Cardiol 36:932-8. 2000
    ..We sought to compare the defibrillation efficacy of a low-energy biphasic truncated exponential (BTE) waveform and a conventional higher-energy monophasic truncated exponential (MTE) waveform after prolonged ventricular fibrillation (VF)...
  5. ncbi Hemodynamic effects of repeated doses of epinephrine after prolonged cardiac arrest and CPR: preliminary observations in an animal model
    C B Cairns
    Harbor UCLA Medical Center, The Department of Emergency Medicine, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
    Resuscitation 36:181-5. 1998
    ..Repeat doses of EPI do not appear to improve CPP to a degree to affect clinically meaningful measures of outcome, i.e., successful countershock and survival...
  6. ncbi Outcome of out-of-hospital postcountershock asystole and pulseless electrical activity versus primary asystole and pulseless electrical activity
    J T Niemann
    UCLA School of Medicine, The Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
    Crit Care Med 29:2366-70. 2001
    ..3%, p =.062). CONCLUSIONS: Countershock of prolonged VF followed by a nonperfusing rhythm has a worse prognosis than primary asystole or PEA and may be related to myocardial electrical injury...
  7. ncbi Transthoracic monophasic and biphasic defibrillation in a swine model: a comparison of efficacy, ST segment changes, and postshock hemodynamics
    J T Niemann
    The Department of Emergency Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, 1000 West Carson Street, Box 21, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
    Resuscitation 47:51-8. 2000
    ..The purpose of this study was to compare the effects mono- and biphasic waveforms for DF on postdefibrillation ST segments and left ventricular pressure, markers of myocardial injury, after more extended periods of VF (30 and 90 s)...
  8. ncbi The Utstein template and the effect of in-hospital decisions: the impact of do-not-attempt resuscitation status on survival to discharge statistics
    J T Niemann
    Department of Emergency Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Box 21, 1000 West Carson Street, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
    Resuscitation 51:233-7. 2001
    ..Post-resuscitation care has not been standardized and in-hospital events that affect SHD are not considered in the template...
  9. ncbi Post-resuscitation plasma catecholamines after prolonged arrest in a swine model
    James T Niemann
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, 1000 West Carson Street, Box 21, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
    Resuscitation 65:97-101. 2005
    ..The purpose of this study was to measure plasma catecholamines after successful resuscitation and to determine their relationship to post-resuscitation hemodynamics...
  10. ncbi Intracardiac voltage gradients during transthoracic defibrillation: implications for postshock myocardial injury
    James T Niemann
    Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, 1000 West Carson Street, Box 21, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
    Acad Emerg Med 12:99-105. 2005
    ..It is not clear how common descriptors of shock dose, e.g., joules (J), relate to VGs...
  11. ncbi A model of ischemically induced ventricular fibrillation for comparison of fixed-dose and escalating-dose defibrillation strategies
    James T Niemann
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
    Acad Emerg Med 11:619-24. 2004
    ..The authors hypothesized that a model of ischemically induced VF would exhibit heterogeneous defibrillation shock strength requirements and that an escalating-dose strategy would more effectively achieve prompt defibrillation...
  12. ncbi Is all ventricular fibrillation the same? A comparison of ischemically induced with electrically induced ventricular fibrillation in a porcine cardiac arrest and resuscitation model
    James T Niemann
    David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, USA
    Crit Care Med 35:1356-61. 2007
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  13. ncbi A new device producing manual sternal compression with thoracic constraint for cardiopulmonary resuscitation
    James T Niemann
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Box 21, 1000 West Carson Street, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
    Resuscitation 69:295-301. 2006
    ..The purpose of this study was to evaluate the mechanism of blood flow with the device, determine the optimal compression force and compare the device to standard manual CPR in a swine arrest model...
  14. ncbi Left ventricular function after monophasic and biphasic waveform defibrillation: the impact of cardiopulmonary resuscitation time on contractile indices
    James T Niemann
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, UCLA School of Medicine, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
    Acad Emerg Med 10:9-15. 2003
    ..To the best of the authors' knowledge, the effect of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) duration and total ischemia time on LV function after countershock, controlling for waveform type, has not been evaluated...
  15. ncbi Vasopressin in piglet "pediatric models" of cardiac arrest
    James T Niemann
    Crit Care Med 30:1158-9. 2002
  16. ncbi Is the tumour necrosis factor-alpha response following resuscitation gender dependent in the swine model?
    James T Niemann
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90509, United States
    Resuscitation 77:258-63. 2008
    ..The purpose of this study was to determine whether the tumour necrosis factor-alpha response following resuscitation was gender dependent...
  17. ncbi Beta-blocker use and the changing epidemiology of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest rhythms
    Scott T Youngquist
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90590, United States
    Resuscitation 76:376-80. 2008
    ..This changing epidemiology has occurred concomitant with an increase in beta-blocker use...
  18. ncbi A percutaneous catheter-based system for the measurement of potential gradients applicable to the study of transthoracic defibrillation
    John P Rosborough
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California 90509, USA
    Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 30:166-74. 2007
    ..In this study we evaluated a multiple electrode, catheter-based device for closed-chest 3D measurements of E field from transthoracic defibrillation shocks...
  19. ncbi Manual vs device-assisted CPR: reconciling apparently contradictory results
    Roger J Lewis
    JAMA 295:2661-4. 2006
  20. ncbi The effect of ischemia on ventricular fibrillation as measured by fractal dimension and frequency measures
    Lawrence D Sherman
    St Francis Hospital, Federal Way, WA, USA
    Resuscitation 75:499-505. 2007
    ..The scaling exponent (ScE), the logarithm of the absolute correlations (LAC) and the Hurst exponent (HE) are three measures of the fractal dimension of VF...
  21. ncbi Prediction rules for estimating neurologic outcome following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
    Jason S Haukoos
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, 777 Bannock Street, Mail Code 0108, Denver, CO 80204, USA
    Resuscitation 63:145-55. 2004
    ..The purpose of this study was to develop a prediction model for meaningful survival following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest using variables available during resuscitation...
  22. ncbi Tumor necrosis factor-alpha is associated with early postresuscitation myocardial dysfunction
    James T Niemann
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Research and Education Institute at Harbor UCLA Medical Center, 1000 West Carson Street, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
    Crit Care Med 32:1753-8. 2004
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  23. ncbi Milrinone facilitates resuscitation from cardiac arrest and attenuates postresuscitation myocardial dysfunction
    James T Niemann
    Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine and the David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, Calif, USA
    Circulation 108:3031-5. 2003
    ..The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of milrinone, a selective phosphodiesterase III inhibitor, as treatment for LV dysfunction after resuscitation...
  24. ncbi Is the ACLS score a valid prediction rule for survival after cardiac arrest?
    Jason S Haukoos
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
    Acad Emerg Med 10:621-6. 2003
    ..However, the ACLS Score has not been validated in other emergency medical services systems...
  25. ncbi Endotracheal drug administration during out-of-hospital resuscitation: where are the survivors?
    James T Niemann
    Department of Emergency Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Box 21, 1000 West Carson Street, Torrance, CA 90509, USA
    Resuscitation 53:153-7. 2002
    ..The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of intravenous (IV) and ET drug therapy on outcome from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest secondary to all cardiac arrest rhythms...
  26. ncbi Reconsideration of proximate Utstein-style end points
    Samuel J Stratton
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90509 2910, USA
    Crit Care Med 30:S137-9. 2002
    ..Furthermore, because in-hospital care is not standardized and uncontrolled variables exist, the primary Utstein end point of SHD should be reconsidered when evaluating cardiac arrest interventions...
  27. ncbi Derivation of clinical predictors of failed rescue shock during out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation
    James J Menegazzi
    Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
    Prehosp Emerg Care 12:347-51. 2008
    ..Failed rescue shocks have been shown to decrease the likelihood of survival in the treatment of out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation (VF). Avoidance of failed shocks may improve survival...