Critical incidents during prehospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation: What are the problems nobody wants to talk about?

European Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 38-40

  Hohenstein, Christian ^a   Rupp, Peter ^a   Fleischmann, Thomas ^a  

^a JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Critical incident reporting; Emergency medicine; Prehospital

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EQUIPMENT; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTERNET; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; ADULT; AGED; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; RISK MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 79952898607     PISSN: 09699546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MEJ.0b013e32833b1a61     Document Type: Article

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