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Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

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Open Access 01-12-2014 | Oral presentation

Exercise-related sudden cardiac arrest in London: incidence, survival, and bystander response

Authors: Melanie J Edwards, Rachael T Fothergill, Mark Whitbread

Published in: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine | Special Issue 1/2014

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The incidence of, and survival from, exercise-related sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) in the general population in the UK, and in London specifically, has not been investigated. The prevalence of factors likely to be related to survival from exercise-related SCA, such as bystander CPR and use of public defibrillators, has also not been examined. …

Title: Exercise-related sudden cardiac arrest in London: incidence, survival, and bystander response
Authors: Melanie J Edwards
Rachael T Fothergill
Mark Whitbread
Publication date: 01-12-2014
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine / Issue Special Issue 1/2014
Electronic ISSN: 1757-7241
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-22-S1-O3

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