Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Management by First Responders: Retrospective Review of a Fire Fighter First Responder Program
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Use of automated external defibrillator by first responders in out of hospital cardiac arrest: prospective controlled trial.
OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that the use of an automated external defibrillator by police and fire fighters results in higher discharge rates for out of hospital cardiac arrest. DESIGN Controlled clinical trial with initial random allocation of automated external defibrillators to first responders in four of the eight participating regions; each region switched from control to experiment...
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عنوان ژورنال: Australasian Journal of Paramedicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2202-7270
DOI: 10.33151/ajp.11.5.59