Effects of early defibrillation by ambulance personnel on short- and long-term outcome of cardiac arrest survival: The munich experiment

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Volumn 112, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1584-1591

  Ladwig, Karl Heinz ^a   Schoefinius, Andreas ^a   Danner, Reinhold ^a   Gürtler, Rolf ^a   Herman, Robert ^a   Koeppel, Andreas ^a   Hauber, Peter ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Early defibrillation; Out of hospital cardiac arrest

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031441547     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.112.6.1584     Document Type: Article

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