Dispatcher assistance and automated external defibrillator performance among elders

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 968-973

  Ecker, Rob ^a   Rea, Thomas D ^a,b   Meischke, Hendrika ^a,b   Schaeffer, Sheri M ^b   Kudenchuk, Peter ^a   Eisenberg, Mickey S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Emergency Medical Services Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated external defibrillator; Cardiac arrest; Elders; Emergency dispatch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLLAPSE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIMULATION; SKILL; SURVIVAL; TELEPHONE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL COMPETENCY; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION; WASHINGTON;

EID: 0034793707     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2001.tb01096.x     Document Type: Article

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