Resuscitation quality assurance for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest - Setting-up an ambulance defibrillator telemetry network

Resuscitation

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1726-1728

  Lyon, R M ^a   Clarke, S ^b   Gowens, P ^c   Egan, G ^c   Clegg, G R ^b  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH AMBULANCE SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Cardiac care; Resuscitation

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATOR; HEART ARREST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RESUSCITATION; TELEPHONE TELEMETRY;

AMBULANCES; CARDIOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; DEFIBRILLATORS; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RESUSCITATION; TELEMETRY;

EID: 78650203444     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.09.007     Document Type: Article

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