A model of survival following pre-hospital cardiac arrest based on the Victorian Ambulance Cardiac Arrest Register

Resuscitation

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 311-322

  Fridman, Masha ^a,b   Barnes, Vanessa ^a   Whyman, Andrew ^a   Currell, Alex ^a   Bernard, Stephen ^a,b   Walker, Tony ^c   Smith, Karen L ^a,b  

^a Metropolitan Ambulance Service   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Ambulance Victoria   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR); Out of hospital CPR; Sudden cardiac death; Utstein template; Ventricular fibrillation; Ventricular tachycardia (VT); Witnessed cardiac arrest

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RESUSCITATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

AMBULANCES; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; VICTORIA;

EID: 35348913816     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2007.05.005     Document Type: Article

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