Deployment of automated external defibrillators: Could survival be improved?;Utplassering av hjartestartarar - Nyttar det?

Tidsskrift for den Norske Laegeforening

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 316-319

  Rørtveit, Sverre ^a   Meland, Eivind ^b  

^a Kommunelegekontoret ^*  (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MEDLINE; NORWAY; REVIEW; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVAL; TRAINING; VALIDATION PROCESS; CARDIOVERSION; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INSTRUMENTATION; MORTALITY; RESUSCITATION;

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 1442265519     PISSN: 00292001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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