Do modifications of the American Heart Association guidelines improve survival of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest?

Circulation

Volumn 119, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 2542-2544

  Ewy, Gordon A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ASSISTED VENTILATION; EDITORIAL; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HYPERVENTILATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OXYGEN THERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; AERATION; ANIMAL; CARDIOVERSION; CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FIRST AID; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEART MASSAGE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NOTE; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESCUE PERSONNEL; STANDARD; SURVIVAL;

AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION; ANIMALS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FIRST AID; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEART ARREST; HEART MASSAGE; HUMANS; INSUFFLATION; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; POSITIVE-PRESSURE RESPIRATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 66349122387     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.860262     Document Type: Editorial

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