Advances for treating in-hospital cardiac arrest: Safety and effectiveness of a new automatic external cardioverter-defibrillator

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 627-632

  Martínez Rubio, Antoni ^a   Kanaan, Nabil ^b   Borggrefe, Martin ^c   Block, Michael ^d   Mäkijärvi, Markku ^e   Fedele, Francesco ^f   Pappone, Carlo ^g   Haverkamp, Wilhelm ^h   Luis Merino, José ⁱ   Barón Esquivias, Gonzalo ^j   Cinca, Juan ^a  

^a Univ Hosp la Sta Creu i St Pau ^*  (Spain)

^b Cardiac Science Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d Klinik Augustinum Munchen   (Germany)

^e HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^f FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

^g SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

ⁱ HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

^j HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC EXTERNAL CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEFIBRILLATOR; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART RHYTHM; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOLTER MONITORING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T WAVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037454038     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(02)02865-6     Document Type: Article

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