Editorial: Resuscitations from pulseless electrical activity and asystole: How big a piece of the survivors' pie?

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 490-492

  Cummins, R O ^a   Hazinski, M F ^a  

^a Medical Center S   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYSTOLE; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; EDITORIAL; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; MORTALITY; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ARRHYTHMIA; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ARREST; HUMANS;

EID: 0032184714     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-0644(98)70179-9     Document Type: Editorial

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