Do health care professionals report sudden cardiac arrest better than laymen?

Resuscitation

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 265-268

  Castrén, Maaret ^a,d   Kuisma, Markku ^a   Serlachius, Johanna ^b   Skrifvars, Markus ^c  

^a Helsinki City Emergency Medical Services   (Finland)

^b Helsinki Dispatching Center   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d NONE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Dispatcher; Emergency call; EMS; Health care professionals; Laymen; Resuscitation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL;

EMERGENCIES; FINLAND; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEART ARREST; HOTLINES; HUMANS; NURSES; PHYSICIANS;

EID: 0035662308     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9572(01)00422-1     Document Type: Article

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