Competence of health professionals to check the carotid pulse

Resuscitation

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 173-175

  Ochoa, F Javier ^a   Ramalle Gomara E ^a,b   Carpintero, J M ^a   Garcia A ^a   Saralegui, I ^a  

^a HOSPITAL SAN PEDRO   (Spain)

^b Research Support Unit in La Rioja   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Carotid pulse; Skills; Training

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY PULSE; COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; NECK; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESUSCITATION; TIME; TRAINING;

ADULT; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CAROTID ARTERIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PULSE; SPAIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032102615     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9572(98)00055-0     Document Type: Article

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