Improved prediction of defibrillation success for out-of-hospital VF cardiac arrest using wavelet transform methods

Resuscitation

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 269-275

  Watson, James N ^a   Uchaipichat, Nopadol ^a   Addison, Paul S ^a   Clegg, Gareth R ^b   Robertson, Colin E ^b   Eftestol, Trygve ^c   Steen, Petter A ^d  

^a CardioDigital Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^d ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Electrocardiography; Shock outcome prediction; Ventricular fibrillation; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; ENTROPY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 9944256106     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2004.06.012     Document Type: Article

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