Life saving apps: Linking cardiac arrest victims to emergency services and volunteer responders

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 226, Issue , 2016, Pages 59-62

  Keung, Sarah N Lim Choi ^a   Khan, Mohammed O ^a   Smith, Christopher ^b   Perkins, Gavin ^b   Murphy, Paddie ^a   Arvanitis, Theodoros N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Defibrillator; Emergency Medical Services.; Mobile Applications

Indexed keywords

DEFIBRILLATORS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS;

CARDIAC ARREST; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MOBILE APPS; TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTION;

EMERGENCY SERVICES;

DEFIBRILLATOR; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MOBILE APPLICATION; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PROCEDURES; VOLUNTEER;

DEFIBRILLATORS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; VOLUNTEERS;

EID: 84978699294     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-664-4-59     Document Type: Conference Paper

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