Analysing calls by lay persons reporting cardiac arrest

Resuscitation

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 23-26

  Meron, Giora ^a   Frantz, Oliver ^a   Sterz, Fritz ^a   Müllner, Marcus ^a   Kaff, Alfred ^b   Laggner, Anton N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b Vienna Municipal Ambulance Service   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest epidemiology; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Emergency dispatch calls; Emergency medical services communications systems; Emotions; Pre arrival instructions; Telephone

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; TELEPHONE; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 0029887525     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0300-9572(96)00963-X     Document Type: Article

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