Automated external defibrillation versus manual defibrillation for prolonged ventricular fibrillation: Lethal delays of chest compressions before and after countershocks

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 458-467

  Berg, Robert A ^a,b   Hilwig, Ronald W ^a   Kern, Karl B ^a,b   Sanders, Arthur B ^a,b   Xavier, Lyndon C ^a   Ewy, Gordon A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTRIC SHOCK; HEART MASSAGE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETHALITY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SURVIVAL; SWINE; TIME;

EID: 0141866906     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/S0196-0644(03)00525-0     Document Type: Article

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