Increase in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest attended by the medical mobile intensive care units, but not myocardial infarction, during the 2003 heat wave in Paris, France

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3079-3084

  Empana, Jean Philippe ^a   Sauval, Patrick ^b   Ducimetiere, Pierre ^c   Tafflet, Muriel ^e   Carli, Pierre ^b   Jouven, Xavier ^a,d  

^a PARIS CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH CENTER   (France)

^b HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Environment; Epidemiology; Prevention; Risk factors; Sudden death

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENDER; HEART ARREST; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEAT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SUDDEN DEATH; VICTIM; WEATHER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE;

AGED; EXTREME HEAT; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE HEALTH UNITS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PARIS;

EID: 73349133015     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181b0868f     Document Type: Article

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