Electrical heart activity recorded during prolonged avalanche burial

Circulation

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 646-647

  Strapazzon, Giacomo ^a   Beikircher, Werner ^b   Procter, Emily ^a   Brugger, Hermann ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

^b Department of Anaesthesiology   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AVALANCHE; CASE REPORT; DISASTER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART DISEASE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; MALE; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIING; SPORT INJURY; VICTIM;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; AVALANCHES; BODY TEMPERATURE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEATH; FATAL OUTCOME; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; RESCUE WORK; SKIING;

EID: 84856871910     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.111.049783     Document Type: Note

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