Higher survival rates among younger patients after pediatric intensive care unit cardiac arrests

Pediatrics

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2424-2433

  Meaney, Peter A ^a   Nadkarni, Vinay M ^a   Cook, E Francis ^b   Testa, Marcia ^b   Helfaer, Mark ^a   Kaye, William ^c   Larkin, G Luke ^d   Berg, Robert A ^e  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Cardiac arrest; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; CPR; Heart arrest; Intensive care; Pediatric; Resuscitation; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL RATE; AGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INTENSIVE CARE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33947104583     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-1724     Document Type: Article

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