Emergency Department inter-hospital transfer for post-cardiac arrest care: Initial experience with implementation of a regional cardiac resuscitation center in the United States

Resuscitation

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 596-601

  Roberts, Brian W ^a   Kilgannon, J Hope ^a   Mitchell, Jessica A ^a   Mittal, Neil ^a   Aji, Janah ^a   Kirchhoff, Michael E ^a   Zanotti, Sergio ^a   Parrillo, Joseph E ^a   Chansky, Michael E ^a   Trzeciak, Stephen ^a  

^a Department of Anesthesiology   (United States)

Author keywords

Anoxic brain injury; Cardiac arrest; Cardiac arrest center; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Heart arrest; Resuscitation; Therapeutic hypothermia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMATOSE PATIENT; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY HEMODYNAMICS; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RHYTHM; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESUSCITATION; RETURN OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

AGED; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PATIENT TRANSFER; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84876730479     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2012.09.018     Document Type: Article

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