Vigilance, awareness and a phone line: 20 years of expediting CPR for enhancing survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The 'SHL'-Telemedicine experience in Israel

Resuscitation

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 438-443

  Birati, Edo Y ^a,b   Malov, Nomi ^c   Kogan, Yevgeni ^b,d   Yanay, Yigal ^c   Tamari, Mira ^c   Elizur, Mayera ^c   Steinberg, David M ^b   Golovner, Michal ^c   Roth, Arie ^b,c,d  

^a MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c SHL Telemedicine   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR); Paramedic; Prehospital; Ventricular fibrillation; Witnessed cardiac arrest

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALERTNESS; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TELEMEDICINE; TELEPHONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 56949092743     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2008.08.002     Document Type: Article

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