Automatic external defibrillators: Changing the way we manage ventricular fibrillation

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 172, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 384-388

  Smith, Karen L ^a   Cameron, Peter A ^b   Peeters, Anna ^b   McR Meyer, Alastair D ^b   McNeil, John J ^b  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; META ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0034678540     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2000.tb124014.x     Document Type: Review

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