Cardiac movement identified on prehospital echocardiography predicts outcome in cardiac arrest patients

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 251-255

  Aichinger, Gernot ^a,b   Zechner, Peter Michael ^a,b,c   Prause, Gerhard ^d   Sacherer, Florian ^a,b   Wildner, Gernot ^d   Anderson, Craig L ^e   Pocivalnik, Mirjam ^a,b   Wiesspeiner, Ulrike ^d   Fox, John Christian ^e  

^a Medizinercorps Graz   (Austria)

^b Landeskrankenhaus Villach   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GRAZ   (Austria)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency; Prehospital; Resuscitation; Sonography; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESUSCITATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AUSTRIA; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 84857850837     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10903127.2011.640414     Document Type: Article

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