Does advanced age matter in outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in community-dwelling adults?

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 762-768

  Swor, Robert A ^a   Jackson, Raymond E ^a   Tintinalli, Judith E ^b   Pirrallo, Ronald G ^c  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Cardiac arrest; Elders; Out of hospital cardiac arrest; Outcomes; Resuscitation; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033938609     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2000.tb02266.x     Document Type: Article

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