Results from Austria's nationwide public access defibrillation (ANPAD) programme collected over 2 years

Resuscitation

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 195-200

  Fleischhackl, Roman ^a,d   Roessler, Bernhard ^a,c,d   Domanovits, Hans ^a,d   Singer, Florian ^a,c,d   Fleischhackl, Sabine ^a,c,d   Foitik, Gerald ^a,b,d   Czech, Gerald ^a,b,d   Mittlboeck, Martina ^a,d   Malzer, Reinhard ^a,d   Eisenburger, Philip ^a,d   Hoerauf, Klaus ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Department of Anaesthesiology and General Intensive Care ^*  (Austria)

^c Vienna Red Cross   (Austria)

^d Vienna Ambulance Service   (Austria)

Author keywords

Automated external defibrillator (AED); Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR); Defibrillation; Out of hospital CPR; Sudden cardiac death (SCD)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUSTRIA; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRIA; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; DEFIBRILLATORS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE);

EID: 41549138239     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2007.11.019     Document Type: Article

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