Cardiac arrest patients in an alpine area during a six year period

Resuscitation

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 39-46

  Eisenburger, Philip ^a   Czappek, Gerhard ^b   Sterz, Fritz ^a   Vergeiner, Gernot ^b   Losert, Heidrun ^a   Holzer, Michael ^a   N Laggner, Anton ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Dispatch Center Red Cross   (Austria)

Author keywords

Automated external defibrillation; Cardiac arrest; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR); Emergency medical services; Out of hospital CPR; Utstein template

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; EUROPE; FEMALE; FIRST AID; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; OBSERVATION; OUTPATIENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RESPONSE TIME; RESUSCITATION; RURAL AREA; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AUSTRIA; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0036027675     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9572(01)00387-2     Document Type: Article

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