Focused nurse-defibrillation training: a simple and cost-effective strategy to improve survival from in-hospital cardiac arrest
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Time to first defibrillation is widely accepted to correlate closely with survival and recovery of neurological function after cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia. Focused training of a cadre of nurses to defibrillate on thei...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2010-07-01
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Series: | Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine |
Online Access: | http://www.sjtrem.com/content/18/1/42 |