Resuscitation
Volume 60, Issue 2 , Pages 197-203 , February 2004

Is female sex associated with increased survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest?

  • Johan Herlitz

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, S-41345 Goteborg, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +46-31-342-1000; fax: +46-31-826540.
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  • Johan Engdahl

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, S-41345 Goteborg, Sweden
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  • Leif Svensson

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • Marie Young

      Affiliations

    • Division of Anaesthesiology, Malmö University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden
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  • Karl-Axel Ängquist

      Affiliations

    • Surgical Department, Norrland’s University Hospital, Umea, Sweden
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  • Stig Holmberg

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, S-41345 Goteborg, Sweden

Received 22 January 2003 ,Revised 30 June 2003 ,Accepted 22 September 2003.

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PII: S0300-9572(03)00352-6

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2003.09.012

Resuscitation
Volume 60, Issue 2 , Pages 197-203 , February 2004

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