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Survival following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) continues to be disappointingly low world-wide, despite advances in technology and international guidelines for resuscitation. Few cities or emergency medical service (EMS) agencies report patient outcomes after OHCA. Among those who do, survival from witnessed VF ranges from 7.7% to 39.9%, with only a few cities reporting rates higher than...
We tested the hypothesis that the frequency of shock success differs between initial and recurrent episodes of ventricular fibrillation (VF).Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients presenting with VF from December 1996 to February 2007 defibrillated using an AED with a fixed-energy protocol (150J) (Philips Medical Systems, Seattle, WA) were included for analysis. We defined shock success as termination...
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