Effectiveness of ambulance paramedics versus ambulance technicians in managing out of hospital cardiac arrest

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 142-148

  Nguyen Van Tam, Jonathan S ^a   Dove, Andrew F ^a   Bradley, Martin P ^a   Pearson, James C G ^a   Durston, Patrick ^b   Madeley, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b EAST MIDLANDS AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambulance technicians; Cardiac arrest; Outcome; Paramedics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAFF TRAINING; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME;

AGED; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; AMBULANCES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD CIRCULATION; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT DISCHARGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2742584766     PISSN: 13510622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.14.3.142     Document Type: Article

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