Pathological features of witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest presenting with ventricular fibrillation

Resuscitation

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 257-264

  Soo, L H ^a   Gray, D ^a   Hampton, J R ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Out of hospital; Pathology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALING; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART WEIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL; THROMBOSIS; VICTIM; WITNESS;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY VESSELS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIUM; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0035658903     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9572(01)00417-8     Document Type: Article

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