337 Extra Corporeal Life Support: A hope in refractory cardiac cardiac arrest?
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Extracorporeal life support following out-of-hospital refractory cardiac arrest
INTRODUCTION Extracorporeal life support (ECLS) has recently shown encouraging results in the resuscitation of in-hospital (IH) refractory cardiac arrest. We assessed the use of ECLS following out-of-hospital (OH) refractory cardiac arrest. METHODS We evaluated 51 consecutive patients who experienced witnessed OH refractory cardiac arrest and received automated chest compression and ECLS upon...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases Supplements
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1878-6480
DOI: 10.1016/s1878-6480(10)70339-6