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Public-Access Defibrillation and Survival after Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Author(s) -

Alfred P. Hallstrom,

Joseph P. Ornato,

Myron L. Weisfeldt,

A. Travers,

J Christenson,

Mary Ann McBurnie,

Robert J. Zalenski,

Lance B. Becker,

Eleanor Schron,

Michael A. Proschan

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

new england journal of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889

H-Index - 1030

eISSN - 1533-4406

pISSN - 0028-4793

DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa040566

Subject(s) - medicine , defibrillation , automated external defibrillator , survival rate , ventricular fibrillation , cardiology , intensive care medicine , resuscitation , medical emergency , emergency medicine , cardiopulmonary resuscitation

The rate of survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is low. It is not known whether this rate will increase if laypersons are trained to attempt defibrillation with the use of automated external defibrillators (AEDs).

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