Automated external versus blind manual defibrillation by untrained lay rescuers

Resuscitation

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 219-221

  Fromm Jr , Robert E ^a   Varon, Joseph ^b  

^a HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated external defibrillation; Cardiac arrest; Defibrillation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DEFIBRILLATION; FIRST AID; HEART ARREST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SUDDEN DEATH; TRAINING; VOLUNTEER;

AMBULATORY CARE; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TEXAS;

EID: 0031015639     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9572(96)01036-2     Document Type: Article

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