Defibrillation or cardiopulmonary resuscitation first for patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrests found by paramedics to be in ventricular fibrillation? A randomised control trial

Resuscitation

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 424-431

  Baker, Paul W ^a   Conway, Jane ^a   Cotton, Chris ^a   Ashby, Dale T ^b   Smyth, James ^c   Woodman, Richard J ^d   Grantham, Hugh ^a  

^a South Australia Ambulance Service   (Australia)

^b ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Advanced life support (ALS); Ambulance; Basic life support (BLS); Cardiac arrest; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR); Defibrillation; Paramedic; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CIRCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 56949105809     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2008.07.017     Document Type: Article

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