Frequency of ventricular fibrillation as predictor of one-year survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrests

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 457-459

  Goto, Yoshikazu ^a   Suzuki, Ichiro ^b   Inaba, Hideo ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RESUSCITATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

EID: 0042063800     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(03)00667-2     Document Type: Article

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