Rapid on-site defibrillation versus community program

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 102-106

  Fedoruk, J C ^a   Paterson, D ^a   Hlynka, M ^b   Fung, K Y ^b   Gobet, Michael ^a   Currie, Wayne ^a  

^a Hotel Dieu Grace Hospital Windsor   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

advanced life support; basic life support; cardiac arrest; casino; CPR; EMS; on site defibrillation; paramedics; prehospital care; public access defibrillation; rapid defibrilla tion; resuscitation; ventricular fibrillation; Windsor

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CARDIOVERSION; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036527572     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X0000025X     Document Type: Article

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