Can you find an automated external defibrillator if a life depends on it?

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 241-243

  Merchant, Raina M ^a,b,c   Asch, David A ^b,c  

^a Center for Resuscitation Science   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR; DATA BASE; EMERGENCY CARE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; NOTE; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL;

DEFIBRILLATORS; HUMANS;

EID: 84860846345     PISSN: 19417713     EISSN: 19417705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.111.964825     Document Type: Note

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