Inaccurate treatment decisions of automated external defibrillators used by emergency medical services personnel: Incidence, cause and impact on outcome

Resuscitation

Volumn 88, Issue , 2015, Pages 68-74

  Calle, Paul A ^a,b   Mpotos, Nicolas ^a,c,e   Calle, Simon P ^a   Monsieurs, Koenraad G ^a,d,e  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b AZ Maria Middelares   (Belgium)

^c Algemeen Ziekenhuis Sint Lucas Gent   (Belgium)

^d ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Automated external defibrillators; Outcome; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; HEART RHYTHM; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RHYTHM ANALYSIS ALGORITHM; SHOCK WAVE; SURVIVAL RATE; ALGORITHM; BELGIUM; DECISION MAKING; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARREST; INCIDENCE; MALE; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESUSCITATION; TRENDS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BELGIUM; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; DECISION MAKING; DEFIBRILLATORS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 84922811578     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2014.12.017     Document Type: Article

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