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Ten strategies to increase survival of cardiac arrest patients

Authors: Alain Cariou, Jerry P. Nolan, Kjetil Sunde

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 10/2015

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International out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survival rates vary considerably and reflect differences in the quality of the local chain of survival. In this paper, we describe the ten priorities for strengthening this chain, thereby improving survival from OHCA (Fig. 1).
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Metadata
Title
Ten strategies to increase survival of cardiac arrest patients
Authors
Alain Cariou
Jerry P. Nolan
Kjetil Sunde
Publication date
01-10-2015
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 10/2015
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-015-3788-z

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