Is the ACLS score a valid prediction rule for survival after cardiac arrest?

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 621-626

  Haukoos, Jason S ^a,b,c   Lewis, Roger J ^a,b,c   Stratton, Samuel J ^a,b,c   Niemann, James T ^a,b,c  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ACLS Score; Cardiac arrest; Out of hospital cardiac arrest; Prediction; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART RHYTHM; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RESUSCITATION; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0038277496     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2003.tb00045.x     Document Type: Article

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