Termination of resuscitative efforts for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 65-70

  Eckstein, Marc ^a,b   Stratton, Samuel J ^a   Chan, Linda S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac arrest; online medical control; resuscitation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SERVICE; ONLINE MONITORING; PARAMEDICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CALIFORNIA; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 11144307828     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2004.07.020     Document Type: Article

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