Traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in Melbourne, Australia

Resuscitation

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 465-470

  Deasy, Conor ^a,b,c   Bray, Janet ^a   Smith, Karen ^a,b   Harriss, Linton ^a,b   Morrison, Chris ^a   Bernard, Stephen ^a,b,c   Cameron, Peter ^b,c  

^a Ambulance Victoria   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emergency medical service; EMS; Out of hospital cardiac arrest; Resuscitation; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; ASYSTOLE; AUSTRALIA; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RHYTHM; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RETURN OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES; VICTORIA; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84858075842     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2011.09.025     Document Type: Article

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