Death in correctional facilities: Opportunities for automated external defibrillation

Resuscitation

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 389-393

  Roessler, B ^a,b   Fleischhackl, R ^a,b   Fleischhackl, S ^a   Singer, F ^a   Mittlboeck, M ^b   Fachberger, J ^a   Malzer, R ^c   Koller, A ^b   Lang, G ^a   Foitik, G ^d   Hoerauf, K ^b  

^a Research Institute of the Red Cross   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Municipal Emergency Medical Service   (Austria)

^d Austrian Red Cross   (Austria)

Author keywords

Automated external defibrillator (AED); Out of hospital CPR; Resuscitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISON; RESUSCITATION;

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRIA; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRISONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34248594351     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2005.12.017     Document Type: Article

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