Relationship of timeliness of paramedic advanced life support interventions to outcome in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest treated by first responders with defibrillators

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 638-648

  Callaham, M ^a   Madsen, C D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATOR; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTUBATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULSE RATE; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029881011     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-0644(96)70169-5     Document Type: Article

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