Survival Increases with CPR by Emergency Medical Services before defibrillation of out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia: Observations from the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium

Resuscitation

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 155-162

  Bradley, Steven M ^a,b   Gabriel, Erin E ^c   Aufderheide, Tom P ^d   Barnes, Roxy ^e   Christenson, Jim ^f   Davis, Daniel P ^g   Stiell, Ian G ^h   Nichol, Graham ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of Washington Clinical Trial Center   (United States)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^e Fire Department   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Defibrillation; Heart arrest; Registries; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 74649084037     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.10.026     Document Type: Article

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