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Epidemiology of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Due to Suffocation Focusing on Suffocation Due to Japanese Rice Cake: A Population-Based Observational Study From the Utstein Osaka Project

BACKGROUND: Japanese rice cake (“mochi”) is a major cause of food-choking accidents in Japan. However, the epidemiology of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCAs) due to suffocation caused by rice cakes is poorly understood. METHODS: OHCA data from 2005 to 2012 were obtained from the population-base...

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Autores principales: Kiyohara, Kosuke, Sakai, Tomohiko, Nishiyama, Chika, Nishiuchi, Tatsuya, Hayashi, Yasuyuki, Iwami, Taku, Kitamura, Tetsuhisa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Japan Epidemiological Association 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5792229/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29093354
http://dx.doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20160179