Resuscitation
Volume 60, Issue 2 , Pages 137-142 , February 2004

Improving the rate of return of spontaneous circulation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests with a formal, structured emergency resuscitation team

  • Te-I Weng

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, and National Taiwan University Medical College, No. 7 Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
    • ,
  • Chien-Hua Huang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, and National Taiwan University Medical College, No. 7 Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
    • ,
  • Matthew Huei-Ming Ma

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, and National Taiwan University Medical College, No. 7 Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
    • ,
  • Wei-Tien Chang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, and National Taiwan University Medical College, No. 7 Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
    • ,
  • Shi-Chi Liu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, and National Taiwan University Medical College, No. 7 Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
    • ,
  • Tzung-Dau Wang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, No. 7 Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
    • ,
  • Wen-Jone Chen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, and National Taiwan University Medical College, No. 7 Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +886-2-23562831; fax: +886-2-23223150.

Received 13 June 2003 ,Revised 25 August 2003 ,Accepted 18 September 2003.

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doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2003.09.007

Resuscitation
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