Does appropriate treatment of the primary underlying cause of PEA during resuscitation improve patients' survival?

Resuscitation

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 819-822

  Saarinen, Sini ^a   Nurmi, Jouni ^a   Toivio, Tuukka ^b   Fredman, David ^c   Virkkunen, Ilkka ^d   Castrén, Maaret ^c  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

In hospital cardiac arrest; Pulseless electrical activity

Indexed keywords

TOXIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FINLAND; FLUID THERAPY; HEART ARREST; HEART TAMPONADE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOTHERMIA; HYPOVOLEMIA; HYPOXIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSELESS ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; SWEDEN; TENSION PNEUMOTHORAX; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 84861709504     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2011.12.018     Document Type: Article

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