Emergency centres lack defibrillator knowledge
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Emergency centres lack defibrillator knowledge.
Of the hospitals that participated in the study, 22 (81.5%) were district level, 3 (11.1%) regional and 2 (7.4%) central hospitals. All 27 hospitals had a defibrillator present in the EC, the number varying from 1 (16 hospitals, 59.3%) to more than 3 (1 hospital, 3.7%). Defibrillator specification varied between facilities: 67% had biphasic, 15% monophasic and 18% both monoand biphasic defibril...
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عنوان ژورنال: South African Medical Journal
سال: 2010
ISSN: 2078-5135
DOI: 10.7196/samj.4107