Cardiac Arrest Cases and Automated External Defibrillator Use in Railroad Stations in Tokyo
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منابع مشابه
Home use of automated external defibrillators for sudden cardiac arrest.
BACKGROUND The most common location of out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest is the home, a situation in which emergency medical services are challenged to provide timely care. Consequently, home use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) might offer an opportunity to improve survival for patients at risk. METHODS We randomly assigned 7001 patients with previous anterior-wall myocardial...
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major (approximately 66–94.5%) cause of sudden death worldwide.1–4 The remaining causes of sudden death are noncardiac conditions, including epilepsy, alcohol abuse, pulmonary embolism, trauma, cerebrovascular accidents and unknown etiology.5 The annual occurrence of sudden death is 350,000–450,000 in the United States, 10.5 per 100,000 population in United Kingdom and 37 per 100,000 in Japan. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Clinical Medicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2158-284X,2158-2882
DOI: 10.4236/ijcm.2014.520170