Quality assessment of defibrillation and advanced life support using data from the medical control module of the defibrillator

Resuscitation

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 237-247

  Sunde, Kjetil ^a,b   Eftestøl, Trygve ^c   Askenberg, Christian ^b,d   Steen, Petter Andreas ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Norway)

^b ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Advanced life support; Emergency medical services; Out of hospital CPR; Outcome; Quality; Shock; Utstein Style

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASYSTOLE; CONTROL SYSTEM; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROCLIMATE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RESUSCITATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART ARREST; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; LONG TERM CARE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NORWAY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; DATA COLLECTION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; NORWAY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0033176241     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9572(99)00059-3     Document Type: Article

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