Advanced Cardiac Life Support in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
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- 12 August 2004
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 351 (7) , 647-656
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa040325
Abstract
The Ontario Prehospital Advanced Life Support (OPALS) Study tested the incremental effect on the rate of survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of adding a program of advanced life support to a program of rapid defibrillation.Keywords
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