Resuscitation
Volume 66, Issue 2 , Pages 167-170 , August 2005

Hospital-wide first-responder automated external defibrillator programme: 1 year experience

  • Christoph Hanefeld

      Affiliations

    • Clinic of Cardiology and Angiology, St. Josef-Hospital, University Hospital of the Ruhr-University Bochum, Gudrunstrasse 56, D-44791 Bochum, Germany
    • ,
  • Carolin Lichte

      Affiliations

    • Clinic of Cardiology and Angiology, St. Josef-Hospital, University Hospital of the Ruhr-University Bochum, Gudrunstrasse 56, D-44791 Bochum, Germany
    • ,
  • Ina Mentges-Schröter

      Affiliations

    • Nursing Administration, St. Josef-Hospital, University Hospital of the Ruhr-University Bochum, Gudrunstrasse 56, D-44791 Bochum, Germany
    • ,
  • Clemens Sirtl

      Affiliations

    • Clinic of Anesthesiology, St. Josef-Hospital, University Hospital of the Ruhr-University Bochum, Gudrunstrasse 56, D-44791 Bochum, Germany
    • ,
  • Andreas Mügge

      Affiliations

    • Clinic of Cardiology and Angiology, St. Josef-Hospital, University Hospital of the Ruhr-University Bochum, Gudrunstrasse 56, D-44791 Bochum, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.

Received 23 September 2004 ,Revised 18 November 2004 ,Accepted 28 January 2005.

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☆ A Spanish translated version of the Abstract and Keywords of this article appears as Appendix at 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2005.01.014.

PII: S0300-9572(05)00082-1

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2005.01.014

Resuscitation
Volume 66, Issue 2 , Pages 167-170 , August 2005

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