Automated external defibrillator use for in-hospital cardiac arrest is not associated with improved survival

Evidence-Based Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 95-96

  Gibbison, Ben ^a   Soar, Jasmeet ^b  

^a BRISTOL ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MULTICENTER STUDY; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT;

EID: 79956322486     PISSN: 13565524     EISSN: 14736810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ebm1195     Document Type: Note

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