Do Not Pardon the Interruption

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 653-655

  Bobrow, Bentley J ^a,b   Spaite, Daniel W ^b  

^a MARICOPA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ASSISTED VENTILATION; DEFIBRILLATION; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ARREST; HEART MASSAGE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70350061947     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.06.508     Document Type: Editorial

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