Defibrillation after Cardiac Arrest - Is It Time to Change Practice?

Affiliations

¹ From the Departments of Psychiatry (C.S.) and Emergency Medicine (J.H.), University of Colorado School of Medicine, and the Departments of Community and Behavioral Health (C.S.) and Epidemiology (J.H.), Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, and the Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, and the Colorado Social Emergency Medicine Collaborative, Denver (J.H.) - all in Colorado; and the American Heart Association, Dallas (C.S.).

Editorial

Comilla Sasson et al. N Engl J Med. 2022.

. 2022 Nov 24;387(21):1995-1996.

doi: 10.1056/NEJMe2213562. Epub 2022 Nov 6.

¹ From the Departments of Psychiatry (C.S.) and Emergency Medicine (J.H.), University of Colorado School of Medicine, and the Departments of Community and Behavioral Health (C.S.) and Epidemiology (J.H.), Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, and the Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, and the Colorado Social Emergency Medicine Collaborative, Denver (J.H.) - all in Colorado; and the American Heart Association, Dallas (C.S.).

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Comment on

Defibrillation Strategies for Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation.
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