Restart a Heart Day: A strategy by the European Resuscitation Council to raise cardiac arrest awareness

Resuscitation

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1157-1158

  Georgiou, Marios ^a  

^a NICOSIA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR; AWARENESS; COMPRESSION; DEFIBRILLATION; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INTERNET; MOBILE PHONE; MORTALITY; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANNIVERSARIES AND SPECIAL EVENTS; AWARENESS; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; EUROPE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 84882855453     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2013.06.021     Document Type: Editorial

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