How can we improve the results of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in children? Dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation is a link in the chain of survival

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1646-1647

  López Herce, Jesús ^a   Carrillo, Angel ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; children; dispatcherassisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation; out ofhospital cardiac arrest; resuscitation

Indexed keywords

ASSISTED VENTILATION; CHILD; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTERNET; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL; TELEPHONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST;

EID: 84860249060     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31824317d1     Document Type: Editorial

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