Acute ischemic heart disease alters ventricular fibrillation waveform characteristics in out-of hospital cardiac arrest

Resuscitation

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 412-417

  Olasveengen, Theresa M ^a   Eftestøl, Trygve ^b   Gundersen, Kenneth ^b   Wik, Lars ^a   Sunde, Kjetil ^a  

^a ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Advanced life support; Cardiac arrest; Electrocardiography; Heart failure; Ischemia; Myocardial infarction; Out of hospital CPR; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; WAVEFORM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 61449259768     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.01.012     Document Type: Article

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