Transthoracic impedance does not affect defibrillation, resuscitation or survival in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest treated with a non-escalating biphasic waveform defibrillator

Resuscitation

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 63-69

  White, Roger D ^a   Blackwell, Thomas H ^b   Russell, James K ^c   Snyder, David E ^c   Jorgenson, Dawn B ^c  

^a Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

^b CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic external defibrillator; Defibrillation; Resuscitation; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; HEART ARREST; HEART RHYTHM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL;

CARDIOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; DEFIBRILLATORS; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MINNESOTA; NORTH CAROLINA; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 11144258843     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2004.06.021     Document Type: Article

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