Prehospital Electrical Defibrillation in Sudden Cardiac Arrest

The past decade is marked by very high cardiovascular mortality rates in Russia. Sudden death caused by ventricular fibrillation and asystole is one of the leading reasons for the high mortality. Sudden out-of-hospital cardiac arrest occurs in as high as 70—80% of the cases. The key factor that dete...

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Main Author: V. A. Vostrikov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Federal Research and Clinical Center of Intensive Care Medicine and Rehabilitology, Moscow, Russia 2005-06-01
Series:Общая реаниматология
Online Access:https://www.reanimatology.com/rmt/article/view/1269