Use of automated external defibrillator by first responders in out of hospital cardiac arrest: Prospective controlled trial

British Medical Journal

Volumn 327, Issue 7427, 2003, Pages 1312-1315

  Van Alem, Anouk P ^a   Vrenken, Rob H ^b,c   De Vos, Rien ^a   Tijssen, Jan G P ^a   Koster, Rudolph W ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MUNICIPAL HEALTH SERVICE   (Netherlands)

^c Municipal Health Service   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CIRCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLLAPSE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FIRE FIGHTER; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; POLICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHOCK; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0344234192     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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