Resuscitation
Volume 60, Issue 2 , Pages 189-195 , February 2004

Long-term subjective memory function in ventricular fibrillation out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors resuscitated by early defibrillation

  • T.Jared Bunch

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
    • Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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  • Roger D. White

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
    • Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Mayo Foundation, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
    • Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1-507-255-4235; fax: +1-507-255-6463.
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  • Glenn E. Smith

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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  • David O. Hodge

      Affiliations

    • Division of Biostatistics, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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  • Bernard J. Gersh

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
    • Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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  • Stephen C. Hammill

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
    • Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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  • Win-Kuang Shen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
    • Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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  • Douglas L. Packer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
    • Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

Received 21 July 2003 ,Revised 4 September 2003 ,Accepted 4 September 2003.

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doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2003.09.010

Resuscitation
Volume 60, Issue 2 , Pages 189-195 , February 2004

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