Improving the UK's performance on survival after cardiac arrest the evidence base is strong for changing the way we treat people who have had a cardiac arrest outside hospital

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 347, Issue 7919, 2013, Pages

  Malhotra, Aseem ^a   Rakhit, Roby ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEFIBRILLATION; EARLY INTERVENTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART RHYTHM; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSELESS VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; RESUSCITATION; RETURN OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION; SHORT SURVEY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SURVIVAL RATE; THERAPY DELAY; THORAX PAIN; UNITED KINGDOM; WITNESS;

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; DEFIBRILLATORS; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; SURVIVAL RATE; TRIAGE;

EID: 84881440874     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f4800     Document Type: Short Survey

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