Prognostic implications of level-of-care at tertiary heart centers compared with other hospitals after resuscitation from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 268-276

  Søholm, Helle ^a   Kjaergaard, Jesper ^a   Bro Jeppesen, John ^a   Hartvig Thomsen, Jakob ^a   Lippert, Freddy ^b   Køber, Lars ^a   Nielsen, Niklas ^c   Engsig, Magaly ^d   Steensen, Morten ^a   Wanscher, Michael ^a   Karlsen, Finn Michael ^e   Hassager, Christian ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b Emergency Medical Services   (Denmark)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^e BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

cardiac arrest; health care; outcome assessment

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; NORADRENALIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CARDIOLOGIST; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY CARE UNIT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESUSCITATION; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; DENMARK; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84929936571     PISSN: 19417713     EISSN: 19417705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.115.001767     Document Type: Article

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