Is the workplace a site of cardiac arrest like any other?

Resuscitation

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 602-603

  Descatha, Alexis ^b   Jost, Daniel ^a   Carpentier, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a Brigade de Sapeurs pompiers de Paris   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; DEFIBRILLATOR; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEART ARREST; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; WORKPLACE;

AGED; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARIS; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WORKPLACE;

EID: 67349203569     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.01.018     Document Type: Letter

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