Evaluation of a hospital-wide resuscitation team: Does it increase survival for in-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest?

Resuscitation

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 111-116

  Henderson, S O ^a   Ballesteros, D ^a  

^a LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Utstein template

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST; CIRCULATION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HEART ARREST; HEART RHYTHM; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CALIFORNIA; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035144367     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9572(00)00263-X     Document Type: Article

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