Impact of community-wide deployment of biphasic waveform automated external defibrillators on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Taipei

Resuscitation

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 167-174

  Ko, Patrick Chow In ^a   Ma, Matthew Huei Ming ^a,b   Yen, Zui Shen ^a   Shih, Chung Liang ^a   Chen, Wen Jone ^a   Lin, Fang Yue ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b ROC   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Automated external defibrillator (AED); Cardiac arrest; Desfibrilhador autom tico externo (AED); Emergency medical services; Outcome; Paragem card aca; Resultado; Servi os m dicos de emerg ncia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CHINA; COMMUNITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART ARREST; HEART RHYTHM; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE; MALE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECORDING; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAVEFORM;

AGED; DEFIBRILLATORS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TAIWAN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 8644286381     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2004.04.002     Document Type: Article

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