Improving timeliness while improving the quality of emergency department care
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Measuring and improving cardiopulmonary resuscitation quality inside the emergency department.
AIM OF STUDY To evaluate CPR quality during cardiac resuscitation attempts in an urban emergency department (ED) and determine the influence of the combination of scenario-based training, real-time audiovisual feedback (RTAVF), and post-event debriefing on CPR quality. METHODS CPR quality was recorded using an R Series monitor-defibrillator (ZOLL Medical) during the treatment of adult cardiac...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Australasia
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1742-6731
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2012.01571.x