The relationship between time to arrival of emergency medical services (EMS) and survival from out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest

Resuscitation

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 622-625

  Gold, Laura S ^a,b   Fahrenbruch, Carol E ^b   Rea, Thomas D ^b,c   Eisenberg, Mickey S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Emergency Medical Services Division   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Defibrillation; Spline modeling; Survival

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COLLAPSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; EARLY INTERVENTION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL RATE; THERAPY DELAY; TIME; UNITED STATES;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 77951653025     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.02.004     Document Type: Article

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