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Improving survival from sudden cardiac arrest: the "chain of survival" concept. A statement for health professionals from the Advanced Cardiac Life Support Subcommittee and the Emergency Cardiac Care Committee, American Heart Association.

Richard O. Cummins, +3 more
- 01 May 1991 - 
- Vol. 83, Iss: 5, pp 1832-1847
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This article is published in Circulation.The article was published on 1991-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1437 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Chain of survival & Advanced cardiac life support.

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2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction

Patrick T. O'Gara, +22 more
- 29 Jan 2013 - 
TL;DR: The 2017-18 FAHA/FACC/FAHA Education and Research Grants will be focused on advancing the profession’s understanding of central nervous system disorders and the management of post-traumatic stress disorder.
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ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 Guidelines for Management of Patients With Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force and the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Develop Guidelines for Management of Patients With Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death)

Douglas P. Zipes, +14 more
- 05 Sep 2006 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the medical profession plays a significant role in critically evaluating the use of diagnostic procedures and therapies as they are introduced and tested in the detection, management, or prevention of disease states.
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ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Management of Patients With ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction

Elliott M. Antman, +24 more
- 01 Aug 2004 - 
TL;DR: This document was approved by the American College of Cardiology Foundation Board of Trustees on May 7, 2004 and by theAmerican Heart Association Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee on May 5, 2004.
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European Resuscitation Council Guidelines for Resuscitation 2010 Section 2. Adult basic life support and use of automated external defibrillators.

Rudolph W. Koster, +11 more
- 01 Oct 2010 - 
TL;DR: This section contains the guidelines for adult BLS by lay rescuers and for the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED), which includes recognition of sudden cardiac arrest, the recovery position and management of choking.
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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation of adults in the hospital: A report of 14 720 cardiac arrests from the National Registry of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Mary Ann Peberdy, +8 more
- 01 Sep 2003 - 
TL;DR: The NRCPR is described as the first comprehensive, Utstein-based, standardized characterization of in-hospital resuscitation in the United States, with results that suggest that discharged survivors were generally good and neurological outcome in discharged survivors was generally good.
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Closed-chest cardiac massage.

William B. Kouwenhoven, +2 more
- 09 Jul 1960 - 
TL;DR: Anyone, anywhere, can now initiate cardiac resuscitative procedures to give not only mouth-to-nose artificial respiration but also adequate cardiac massage without thoracotomy.
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Ambulatory sudden cardiac death: Mechanisms of production of fatal arrhythmia on the basis of data from 157 cases

Antonio Bayés de Luna, +2 more
- 01 Jan 1989 - 
TL;DR: The study of the tapes of ambulatory patients who died while wearing Holter devices allows us to know the terminal electrical events of death in these cases and which are the electrical triggering mechanisms leading to the terminal event.
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Cardiac arrest and resuscitation: A tale of 29 cities

Mickey S. Eisenberg, +4 more
- 01 Feb 1990 - 
TL;DR: It is speculated that early CPR permits definitive procedures, including defibrillation, medications, and intubation, to be more effective and hence survival appears to be highest in double-response systems because CPR is started early.
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Outcome of CPR in a large metropolitan area - where are the survivors?

Lance B. Becker, +3 more
- 01 Apr 1991 - 
TL;DR: The overall survival rates for Chicago were significantly lower than those reported in most previous studies, all based on smaller communities; they were consistent with the rates reported in the one comparable study of a large city.
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Treatment of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests with Rapid Defibrillation by Emergency Medical Technicians

Mickey S. Eisenberg, +6 more
- 19 Jun 1980 - 
TL;DR: The enhanced survival after cardiac arrest is encouraging, and further trials of defibrillation by emergency medical technicians are warranted.
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