Continuous Quality Improvement Efforts Increase Survival with Favorable Neurologic Outcome after Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 1-6

  Sporer, Karl ^a   Jacobs, Michael ^a   Derevin, Leo ^a   Duval, Sue ^a   Pointer, James ^a  

^a Alameda County EMS   (United States)

Author keywords

emergency Service; hospital statistics numerical data; out of hospital cardiac arrest complications; out of hospital cardiac arrest therapy; hypothermia; induced methods; ventricular fibrillation etiology; out of hospital cardiac arrest mortality

Indexed keywords

AGED; BRAIN DISEASES; COMPLICATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN DISEASES; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84987925140     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903127.2016.1218980     Document Type: Article

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