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Physician presence at out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is not necessarily the cause of improved survival

A recent publication Hiltunen et al. on Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) in Finland show increased survival when a physician attends an OHCA, compared to EMS. But it is likely that physicians attend OHCA patients with a different prognosis due to comorbidity or illness severity, which causes co...

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Autores principales: Fouche, Pieter Francsois, Jennings, Paul Andrew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4932696/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27377934
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13049-016-0282-8