Outcomes and In-hospital Treatment of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Patients Resuscitated from Ventricular Fibrillation by Early Defibrillation

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 613-619

  Bunch, T Jared ^a   White, Roger D ^a   Gersh, Bernard J ^a   Shen, Win Kuang ^a   Hammill, Stephen C ^a   Packer, Douglas L ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2342640232     PISSN: 00256196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4065/79.5.613     Document Type: Article

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