Cardiopulmonary resuscitation and public access defibrillation in the current era--can we do better yet?

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Editorial

Stuart Berger. J Am Heart Assoc. 2014.

. 2014 Apr 23;3(2):e000945.

doi: 10.1161/JAHA.114.000945.

¹ Medical College of Wisconsin, Medical Director of the Herma Heart Center, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.

No abstract available

Keywords: AED; CPR; Editorials; resuscitation; sud‐den cardiac arrest.

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Outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest by public location in the public-access defibrillation era.
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