Automated external defibrillator installation in the workplace: From recommendations to ADE style international registries

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 765-767

  Descatha, Alexis ^a,b,c  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b University Hospital of Poincaré Site   (France)

^c RAYMOND POINCARÉ HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMPLOYEE; EMPLOYER; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REGISTER; REVIEW; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVAL RATE; WORKPLACE;

DEFIBRILLATORS; HUMANS; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84863856199     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: 15365948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e3182533528     Document Type: Review

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