Barriers to Dispatcher-Assisted Telephone Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 738-740

  Idris, Ahamed H ^a   Roppolo, Lynn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREATHING; COUGHING; DIAPHRAGM MOVEMENT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMOTIONAL STRESS; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TELEPHONE;

EID: 0344826777     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-0644(03)00630-9     Document Type: Editorial

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