Treatment for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: is the glass half empty or half full?

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¹ The opinions expressed in this article are not necessarily those of the editors or of the American Heart Association.From the University of Washington-Harborview Center for Prehospital Emergency Care, Seattle, WA (G.N., J.E.); and the Center for Resuscitation Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (L.B.B.). nichol@uw.edu.
² The opinions expressed in this article are not necessarily those of the editors or of the American Heart Association.From the University of Washington-Harborview Center for Prehospital Emergency Care, Seattle, WA (G.N., J.E.); and the Center for Resuscitation Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (L.B.B.).

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Graham Nichol et al. Circulation. 2014.

. 2014 Nov 18;130(21):1844-6.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.013263.

¹ The opinions expressed in this article are not necessarily those of the editors or of the American Heart Association.From the University of Washington-Harborview Center for Prehospital Emergency Care, Seattle, WA (G.N., J.E.); and the Center for Resuscitation Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (L.B.B.). nichol@uw.edu.
² The opinions expressed in this article are not necessarily those of the editors or of the American Heart Association.From the University of Washington-Harborview Center for Prehospital Emergency Care, Seattle, WA (G.N., J.E.); and the Center for Resuscitation Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (L.B.B.).

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Keywords: Editorials; cardiac arrest; emergency medical services; epidemiology.

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