Experience with the use of automated external defibrillators in out of hospital cardiac arrest.

• To describe the sequences of arrhythmias, number of shocks delivered and the number of failures in a consecutive series of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest attended by our emergency medical service (EMS) and in whom cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was initiated and in whom automated external defibrillators (AEDs) were used.

Subject headings

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Klinisk medicin -- Kardiologi (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Clinical Medicine -- Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems (hsv//eng)

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Klinisk medicin (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Clinical Medicine (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Aged

Automation

Electric Countershock

instrumentation

statistics & numerical data

Female

Heart Arrest

etiology

therapy

Hospitalization

Humans

Male

Tachycardia

Ventricular

complications

Treatment Failure

Ventricular Fibrillation

complications

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)