Effect of protocol compliance to cardiac arrest identification by emergency medical dispatchers

Resuscitation

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 463-469

  Nurmi, Jouni ^a   Pettilä, Ville ^a   Biber, Björn ^b   Kuisma, Markku ^a   Komulainen, Rauni ^c   Castrén, Maaret ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c Helsinki Dispatching Center   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bystander CPR; Cardiac arrest; Emergency medical services; Out of hospital CPR

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESUSCITATION; TELEMEDICINE;

ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FINLAND; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS;

EID: 33747885368     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2006.01.016     Document Type: Article

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