Mobile phone technology identifies and recruits trained citizens to perform CPR on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest victims prior to ambulance arrival

Resuscitation

Volumn 82, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1514-1518

  Ringh, Mattias ^a   Fredman, David ^a   Nordberg, Per ^a   Stark, Tomas ^b   Hollenberg, Jacob ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM SÖDER HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b LEKAB Communication Systems   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Automated external defibrillators; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Emergency medical system services; Mobile phone; Out of hospital cardiac arrest

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HUMAN; MOBILE PHONE; MOBILE POSITIONING SYSTEM; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RESUSCITATION; SIMULATION;

AMBULANCES; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CELLULAR PHONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80855123665     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2011.07.033     Document Type: Article

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