Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 318, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 19-24

  Wilber, David J ^a   Garan, Hasan ^a   Finkelstein, Dianne ^a   Kelly, Elizabeth ^a   Newell, John ^a   Mcgovern, Brian ^a   Ruskin, Jeremy N ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARREST; HEART PACING; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RISK;

ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ARREST; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0024280348     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198801073180105     Document Type: Article

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