Bystander resuscitation attempts at heroin overdose: Does it improve outcomes?

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 213-218

  Dietze, Paul ^a   Cantwell, Kate ^b   Burgess, Stephen ^c  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Metropolitan Ambulance Service   (Australia)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Heroin; Overdose; Resuscitation

Indexed keywords

DIAMORPHINE;

ADULT; AGE; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; OVERDOSE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036644501     PISSN: 03768716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-8716(02)00063-7     Document Type: Article

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