Hospital employees' theoretical knowledge on what to do in an in-hospital cardiac arrest

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Källestedt, Marie Louise S ^a   Rosenblad, Andreas ^a   Leppert, Jerzy ^a   Herlitz, Johan ^b   Enlund, Mats ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

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EID: 84858750271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17577241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1757-7241-18-43     Document Type: Article

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