Antecedents to cardiac arrests in a hospital equipped with a medical emergency team

Critical Care and Resuscitation

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 162-166

  Vetro, Joseph ^a   Natarajan, Dinesh K ^a   Mercer, Inga ^a   Buckmaster, Jon N ^a   Heland, Melodie ^a   Hart, Graeme K ^a   Bellomo, Rinaldo ^a   Jones, Daryl A ^b  

^a AUSTIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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