Self-adhesive monitor/defibrillation pads improve prehospital defibrillation success

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1987, Pages 872-877

  Stults, Kenneth R ^a   Brown, Donald D ^b   Cooley, Frank ^c   Kerber, Richard E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c Des Moines Fire Department Paramedic Service ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

defibrillation; self adhesive pads

Indexed keywords

DEFIBRILLATION; HEART; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREHOSPITAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION UNIT; SURVIVAL; THERAPY;

ADHESIVES; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; AMBULANCES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMAN; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0023195551     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-0644(87)80525-5     Document Type: Article

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