Delaying Defibrillation to Give Basic Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation to Patients with Out-of-Hospital Ventricular Fibrillation: A Randomized Trial

JAMA

Volumn 289, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1389-1395

  Wik, Lars ^a   Hansen, Trond Boye ^d   Fylling, Frode ^a   Steen, Thorbjørn ^a   Vaagenes, Per ^b   Auestad, Bjørn H ^c   Steen, Petter Andreas ^a  

^a ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NORWAY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESUSCITATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; CARDIOVERSION; EMERGENCY; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; MIDDLE AGED; RESCUE PERSONNEL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0037454292     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.289.11.1389     Document Type: Article

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