Does the number of rescuers affect the survival rate from out-of-hospital cardiac arrests? Two or more rescuers are not always better than one

Resuscitation

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 154-161

  Nishi, Taiki ^a   Maeda, Tetsuo ^a   Takase, Keiko ^a   Kamikura, Takahiro ^a   Tanaka, Yoshio ^a   Inaba, Hideo ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Home; Location; Out of hospital cardiac arrest; Prospective cohort study; Telephone CPR

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATION; FEMALE; HOME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RESCUE PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84873422459     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2012.05.026     Document Type: Article

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