Seven years' experience with early defibrillation by police and paramedics in an emergency medical services system

Resuscitation

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 145-151

  White, Roger D ^a,b   Hankins, Daniel G ^a,b   Bugliosi, Thomas F ^a,b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b Gold Cross Ambulance Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced life support (ALS); Automated external defibrillator (AED); Cardiac arrest; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Defibrillation; Emergency medical services; First responder; Out of hospital CPR; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEFIBRILLATION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POLICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CHILD; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION; WASHINGTON;

EID: 0032466526     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9572(98)00135-X     Document Type: Article

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