Automated external defibrillators and in-hospital cardiac arrest: Patient survival and device performance at an Australian teaching hospital

Resuscitation

Volumn 82, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1537-1542

  Smith, Roger J ^a   Hickey, Bernadette B ^a   Santamaria, John D ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Automated external defibrillator; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Defibrillation; In hospital cardiac arrest

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETURN OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; DEFIBRILLATORS; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VICTORIA;

EID: 80855138155     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2011.06.025     Document Type: Article

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