The use of automated external defibrillators and public access defibrillators in the mountains: Official guidelines of the international commission for mountain emergency medicine ICAR-MEDCOM

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 64-66

  Elsensohn, Fidel ^a   Agazzi, Giancelso ^b   Syme, David ^c   Swangard, Michael ^d   Facchetti, Gianluca ^e   Brugger, Hermann ^f  

^a Austrian Mountain Rescue Service   (Austria)

^b Italian Alpine Club   (Italy)

^c Loch Toy Cottage   (United Kingdom)

^d Canadian Ski Patrol System   (Canada)

^e Scurcola Marsicana   (Italy)

^f International Commission for Mountain Emergency Medicine   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automated external defibrillator; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Emergency medical system; Mountain rescue; Public access defibrillator

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR; DEFIBRILLATOR; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EXERCISE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HIGH RISK POPULATION; MOUNTAINEERING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC ACCESS DEFIBRILLATOR; RESUSCITATION; SKIING; SUDDEN DEATH;

EID: 33644858644     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1580/1080-6032(2006)17[64:TUOAED]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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