To resuscitate or not? The emergency physician's decision in the prehospital setting;Reanimieren oder nicht? Die notärztliche entscheidung im rettungsdienst

Anasthesiologie Intensivmedizin Notfallmedizin Schmerztherapie

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 341-348

  Mohr, Michael ^a   Busch, M ^a   Bahr, J ^a   Kettler, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

CPR; Emergency physician; Out of hospital; Termination; Withholding

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASYSTOLE; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FATALITY; HEART ARREST; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PHYSICIAN; PUPIL REFLEX; RESUSCITATION; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; DEATH; ETHICS; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; DEATH; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0038749400     PISSN: 09392661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-38948     Document Type: Article

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