Impact of the 2005 resuscitation guidelines on patient survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: Experience from a 20-year registry in a middle-eastern country

Resuscitation

Volumn 84, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Salam, Amar M ^a,b   AlBinali, Hajar A ^a,b   Singh, Rajvir ^b   Al Suwaidi, Jassim ^a,b  

^a HAMAD GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Qatar)

^b HAMAD MEDICAL CORPORATION   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMORBIDITY; DATA BASE; DISEASE REGISTRY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; MIDDLE EAST; MORTALITY; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; COMORBIDITY; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QATAR; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84880133798     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2013.04.008     Document Type: Letter

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