Airline use of automatic external defibrillators: Shocking developments

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 87-88

  Wolbrink, Alex ^a   Borrillo, Donato ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; DEFIBRILLATOR; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FLIGHT; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; SHORT SURVEY;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AVIATION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0032932344     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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