> In contrast, if you infuse saline down an occluded vessel, you push the blood through the myocardial vasculature and replace it with fluid containing no oxygen. That is a recipe for cardiac arrest because the myocardium is very sensitive to short periods of ischaemia. I like all cardiologists have done it occasionally inadvertently and caused ventricular fibrillation (fortunately always successfully defibrillated in my patients).
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