A specialist, second-tier response to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: Setting up TOPCAT2

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 405-407

  Clarke, Scott ^a   Lyon, Richard M ^b   Short, Steven ^a   Crookston, Colin ^c   Clegg, Gareth R ^b  

^a NHS LOTHIAN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH AMBULANCE SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULANCE; AMBULANCE RESPONSE TIME; ARTICLE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NORMAL HUMAN; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PARAMEDICAL EDUCATION; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RETURN OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION; UNITED KINGDOM; VIDEORECORDING; ADOLESCENT; AGED; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; RESCUE PERSONNEL; SPECIALIZATION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PILOT PROJECTS; SCOTLAND; SPECIALIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901692559     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2012-202232     Document Type: Article

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