Basics in advanced life support: A role for download audit and metronomes

Resuscitation

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 127-134

  Fletcher, David ^a   Galloway, Robert ^b   Chamberlain, Douglas ^a,b,c   Pateman, Jane ^a,b   Bryant, Geoffrey ^b   Newcombe, Robert G ^c  

^a South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL SUSSEX COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audit; Compressions; CPR; Electronic downloads; Pauses

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL AUDIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION;

ADVANCED CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT; AMBULANCES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; GREAT BRITAIN; HEART ARREST; HEART MASSAGE; HUMANS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 46849109943     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2008.03.003     Document Type: Article

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