Impact of Building Height and Volume on Cardiac Arrest Response Time

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 212-219

  Conway, Anders B ^a   McDavid, Andrew ^b   Emert, Jamie M ^c,d   Kudenchuk, Peter J ^b,d   Stubbs, Benjamin A ^c,d   Rea, Thomas D ^b,d   Yin, Lihua ^a,e   Olsufka, Michele ^a,e   McCoy, Andrew M ^b   Sayre, Michael R ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c STD Clinic Public Health Seattle   (United States)

^d King County Regional EMS System   (United States)

^e Seattle Fire Department   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiopulmonary resuscitation; emergency medical services; geographic mapping; out of hospital cardiac arrest; quality control; time to treatment

Indexed keywords

DEFIBRILLATOR; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HOUSING; HUMAN; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PROCEDURES; REACTION TIME; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR;

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; DEFIBRILLATORS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HOUSING; HUMANS; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; REACTION TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84945242210     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10903127.2015.1061624     Document Type: Article

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