Defibrillation first versus chest compression first after prolonged ventricular fibrillation

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1428-1429

  Tang, Wanchun ^a,b   Weil, Max Harry ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic external defibrillators; Cardiac arrest; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Chest compression; Defibrillation; Outcomes; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

DEFIBRILLATION; EDITORIAL; HEART ARREST; HEART MASSAGE; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVAL; THORAX COMPRESSION;

ANIMALS; CHEST WALL OSCILLATION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; HUMANS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 2942562881     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000128958.64193.14     Document Type: Editorial

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