The knowledge of public access to defibrillation in selected cities in Poland

Archives of Medical Science

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 27-33

  Kozłowski, Dariusz ^a,b   Kłosiewicz, Tomasz ^b   Kowalczyk, Adam ^a   Kowalczyk, Anna Krystyna ^a   Koźluk, Edward ^c   Dudziak, Maria ^a   Homenda, Wojciech ^b   Raczak, Grzegorz ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^b POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Automatic external defibrillator; Resuscitation; Sudden cardiac death; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR; COMMUNITY PROGRAM; DEFIBRILLATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; MALE; POLAND; PRIMARY SCHOOL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SKILL; SUDDEN DEATH; TRAINING;

EID: 84874916906     PISSN: 17341922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5114/aoms.2013.33345     Document Type: Article

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