Prospective assessment of integrating the existing emergency medical system with automated external defibrillators fully operated by volunteers and laypersons for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: The Brescia Early Defibrillation Study (BEDS)

European Heart Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 553-561

  Cappato, Riccardo ^a   Curnis, Antonio ^b   Marzollo, Paolo ^c   Mascioli, Giosuè ^b   Bordonali, Tania ^b   Beretti, Sonia ^c   Scalfi, Fausto ^c   Bontempi, Luca ^b   Carolei, Adriana ^a   Bardy, Gust ^d   De Ambroggi, Luigi ^a   Cas, Livio Dei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c Division of Emergency Medicine   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated external defibrillators; Early defibrillation; Out of hospital cardiac arrest

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLLAPSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RURAL AREA; SAFETY; SURVIVAL; TRAINING; URBAN AREA;

AUTOMATION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VOLUNTARY WORKERS;

EID: 33645228507     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehi654     Document Type: Article

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