The association between emergency medical services staffing patterns and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 71-77

  Eschmann, Nicholas M ^a   Pirrallo, Ronald G ^a   Aufderheide, Tom P ^a   Lerner, E Brooke ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Emergency medical services; Prehospital; Staffing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT; AGED; ARTICLE; CIRCULATION; DEFIBRILLATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETURN OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION; SURVIVAL; TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES AS TOPIC; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WISCONSIN;

EID: 71449112475     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10903120903349820     Document Type: Article

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