Introduction of paramedic led Echo in Life Support into the pre-hospital environment: The PUCA study

Resuscitation

Volumn 112, Issue , 2017, Pages 65-69

  Reed, Matthew J ^a,b   Dewar, Alistair ^a,b   Short, Steven ^b   Clegg, Gareth R ^a,b   Black, Polly ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Echo in Life Support; Emergency Department; Prehospital medicine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAMERA; COHORT ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PARAMEDICAL EDUCATION; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESUSCITATION; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; VIDEORECORDING; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DEVICES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PROCEDURES; RESCUE PERSONNEL; TIME FACTOR;

ADVANCED CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; HUMANS; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84994754104     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2016.09.003     Document Type: Article

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