Mobile-phone dispatch of laypersons for CPR in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 372, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 2316-2325

  Ringh, Mattias ^a   Rosenqvist, Mårten ^b   Hollenberg, Jacob ^a   Jonsson, Martin ^a   Fredman, David ^a   Nordberg, Per ^a   Järnbert Pettersson, Hans ^a   Hasselqvist Ax, Ingela ^a   Riva, Gabriel ^a   Svensson, Leif ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b DANDERYD HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; MOBILE PHONE POSITIONING SYSTEM; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RESUSCITATION; RETURN OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION; SURVIVAL; SWEDEN; VOLUNTEER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME TO TREATMENT; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CELL PHONES; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SURVIVAL RATE; SWEDEN; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; VOLUNTEERS;

EID: 84930801334     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1406038     Document Type: Article

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