Survival after tachyarrhythmic arrest - What are we waiting for?

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 358, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 77-79

  Saxon, Leslie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

AUTOMATION; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL; TACHYCARDIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38049093007     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe0707823     Document Type: Editorial

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