Evolution of a community-wide early defibrillation programme: Experience over 13 years using police/fire personnel and paramedics as responders

Resuscitation

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 279-283

  White, Roger D ^a,b   Bunch, T Jared ^a   Hankins, Daniel G ^b  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated external defibrillators; Bystander CPR; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Heart arrest; Resuscitation; Return of spontaneous circulation; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

INOTROPIC AGENT; VASOACTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FIRE FIGHTER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART ARREST; HEART RHYTHM; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PERFORMANCE; POLICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESUSCITATION;

ADVANCED CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FEMALE; FIRES; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; POLICE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 20344381298     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2004.10.018     Document Type: Article

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