Improved out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival after the sequential implementation of 2005 AHA guidelines for compressions, ventilations, and induced hypothermia: The wake county experience

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 348-357

  Hinchey, Paul R ^a,b,c   Myers, J Brent ^a,c   Lewis, Ryan ^c   De Maio, Valerie J ^a,b   Reyer, Eric ^a   Licatese, Daniel ^d   Zalkin, Joseph ^c   Snyder, Graham ^a  

^a WAKEMED HEALTH AND HOSPITALS   (United States)

^b Emergency Services Institute   (United States)

^c Wake County EMS System   (United States)

^d Rex Healthcare   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE CARDIOGRAPHY; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RISK; SUBURBAN AREA; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URBAN AREA; AGED; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEART MASSAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; UNITED STATES; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

AGED; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART MASSAGE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; ODDS RATIO; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 77956507005     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2010.01.036     Document Type: Article

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