experiments were performed on 39 anaesthetized open-chest dogs ( bw 16-33 kg ) to examine the effect of lidocaine on the frequency of primary ventricular fibrillation ( vf ) and the time course of the ventricular fibrillation threshold ( vft ) ( train of stimuli-method ) following acute coronary artery occlusion , and also to study the effects of lidocaine on the vft of non-ischaemic heart at different therapeutic and high non-therapeutic doses .
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ventricular fibrillation
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lidocaine