Difficulty of cardiac arrest rhythm identification does not correlate with length of chest compression pause before defibrillation

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 12 SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Abella, Benjamin S ^a   Kim, Salem ^a   Edelson, Dana P ^b   Huang, Kuang Ning ^b   Merchant, Raina M ^a   Myklebust, Helge ^c   Vanden Hoek, Terry L ^b   Becker, Lance B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Laerdal Medical   (Norway)

Author keywords

Defibrillation; In hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Ventricular fibrillation; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CROWDING; DEFIBRILLATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART ARREST; HEART RHYTHM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RESIDENT; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEAM BUILDING;

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORAX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33751078537     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000246757.15898.13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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