Drowning: More hope for patients, less hope for guidelines

Resuscitation

Volumn 83, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1051-1052

  Deakin, Charles D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROWNING; EDITORIAL; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESCUE WORK; RESUSCITATION; SEDATION; SURVIVAL RATE; WARMING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

DROWNING; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; FIREFIGHTERS; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; RESUSCITATION;

EID: 84865285715     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2012.06.004     Document Type: Editorial

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