The Location and Incidence of Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest in Georgia: Implications for Placement of Automated External Defibrillators

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 10-14

  Malcom III, George E ^a,b,c   Thompson, Teresa Michel ^a,d   Coule, Phillip L ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTH   (United States)

^c Department of Emergency Medicine ^*  (United States)

^d Mt Area Health Education Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated external defibrillator; Cardiac arrest; Public access defibrillation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY;

EID: 0346098204     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/312703002752     Document Type: Article

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