Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the elderly: Beneficial or an exercise in futility?

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 649-663

  Tresch, D D ^a   Thakur, R K ^a  

^a Thoracic and Cardiovascular Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NURSING HOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 0031783808     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0733-8627(05)70023-7     Document Type: Article

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