Long-term cardiac arrest survivors of the Vienna emergency medical service

Resuscitation

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 137-143

  Eisenburger, Philip ^a   List, Michaela ^b   Schörkhuber, Waltraud ^a   Walker, Renate ^a   Sterz, Fritz ^a   Laggner, Anton N ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Abteilung fur Innere Medizin   (Austria)

Author keywords

Advanced life support; Basic life support; Cardiac arrest; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Emergency cardiac care; Emergency medical services; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL TIME;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRIA; BRAIN; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEPRESSION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECURRENCE; SURVIVORS;

EID: 0031774854     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9572(98)00085-9     Document Type: Article

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