Emergency thoracotomy in the urban community hospital: Cardiac rhythm as a new prognosticator?

Enhancing survival after cardiac arrest

Enhancing survival after cardiac arrest — The effect of initial rhythm and a new strategy in emergency care

✍ WD Weaver; LA Cobb; MK Copass; AP Hallstrom; M Emery 📂 Article 📅 1985 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 150 KB

Recent studies suggest that medical professionals may perform better external CPR than do nonprofessional citizens. Professional bystander CPR performed by two distinct groups was studied retrospectively, first with fire department first-responder basic EMTs and then with physicians, nurses, and oth