Survival after Tachyarrhythmic Arrest — What Are We Waiting For?  

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Saxon, Leslie A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 358 no. 01 (Jan. 2008), page 77.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: N08.K.2008.01 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Approximately 225,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur annually in the United States. It is a little-known fact that at least double that number of cardiac arrests occur in hospitalized patients.1 Survival after cardiac arrest due to ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation requires prompt defibrillation, regardless of the setting in which it occurs.2,3 Therefore, it is clear that timely defibrillation in the hospital is an important determinant of the quality of cardiovascular care. If out-of-hospital cardiac arrest from ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation occurs where there are readily available automated external defibrillators (AEDs), such as in an airport or a casino, the . . .

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