Importance of continuous chest compressions during cardiopulmonary resuscitation: Improved outcome during a simulated single lay-rescuer scenario

Circulation

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 645-649

  Kern, Karl B ^a   Hilwig, Ronald W ^a   Berg, Robert A ^a   Sanders, Arthur B ^a   Ewy, Gordon A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Fibrillation; Heart arrest; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DEFIBRILLATION; DOG; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; INTENSIVE CARE; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; HEART MASSAGE; INTENSIVE CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0037022212     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/hc0502.102963     Document Type: Article

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