Association between timing of epinephrine administration and intact neurologic survival following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Japan: A population-based prospective observational study

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 782-792

  Nakahara, Shinji ^a   Tomio, Jun ^f   Nishida, Masamichi ^d   Morimura, Naoto ^c   Ichikawa, Masao ^e   Sakamoto, Tetsuya ^b  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TORANOMON HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^f TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARDIAC PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; EARLY INTERVENTION; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETURN OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATION; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELECTION BIAS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84863890950     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2012.01387.x     Document Type: Review

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