Modeling the impact of public access defibrillator range on public location cardiac arrest coverage

Resuscitation

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 904-909

  Siddiq, Auyon A ^a   Brooks, Steven C ^b,c   Chan, Timothy C Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automated external defibrillator; Cardiac arrest; Public access defibrillation; Resuscitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CITY PLANNING; COHORT STUDIES; DEFIBRILLATORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ONTARIO; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84878885654     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2012.11.019     Document Type: Article

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