Cardiac arrest centres make sense

Resuscitation

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 507-508

  Soar, Jasmeet ^a   Packham, Sarah ^a  

^a SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRALIZATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DEFIBRILLATION; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART ARREST; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADVANCED CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT; CARDIAC CARE FACILITIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HEALTH FACILITY SIZE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951662884     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.01.017     Document Type: Editorial

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