Importance of the first link: Description and recognition of an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in an emergency call

Circulation

Volumn 119, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 2096-2102

  Berdowski, Jocelyn ^a   Beekhuis, Freerk ^a   Zwinderman, Aeilko H ^a   Tijssen, Jan G P ^a   Koster, Rudolph W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Death, sudden; Heart arrest; Resuscitation; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; BREATHING PATTERN; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM SAMPLE; RESUSCITATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; SYMPTOM; ASSOCIATION; BREATHING DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STATISTICS; SUDDEN DEATH; TELEPHONE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULANCES; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; COMMUNICATION; CUES; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TELEPHONE;

EID: 65449158458     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.768325     Document Type: Article

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