Post-traumatic stress disorder symptomology associated with witnessing unsuccessful out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 226-229

  Compton, Scott ^a   Grace, Heather ^b   Madgy, Alexander ^a   Swor, Robert A ^b  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Posttraumatic stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEREAVEMENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER SYMPTOM SCALE INTERVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RATING SCALE; RELIGION; RESUSCITATION; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; WITNESS;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 62249105929     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00336.x     Document Type: Article

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