Multiple source surveillance incidence and aetiology of out-of-hospital sudden cardiac death in a rural population in the West of Ireland

European Heart Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1418-1423

  Byrne, Robert ^a,b   Constant, Orla ^a   Smyth, Yvonne ^a   Callagy, Grace ^a   Nash, Patrick ^a   Daly, Kieran ^a   Crowley, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GALWAY   (Ireland)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Resuscitation; Sudden cardiac death; Survival

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CHILD; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; INFANT; IRELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; OUTPATIENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVAL RATE;

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRELAND; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 44949112264     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn155     Document Type: Article

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