Public-Access Defibrillation and Survival after 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) , 637-646
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa040566
Abstract
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).Keywords
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