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Remember – treat the patient not the ECG!

  • G.H. Sodeck

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Vienna General Hospital, Medical School, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090, Vienna, Austria
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  • H. Schmidinger

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Vienna General Hospital, Medical School, Austria
  • ,
  • G. Wieselthaler

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Vienna General Hospital, Medical School, Austria
  • ,
  • H. Domanovits

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Vienna General Hospital, Medical School, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090, Vienna, Austria
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +43 1 40400 1964; fax: +43 1 40400 1965.

Received 22 March 2005 ,Accepted 22 March 2005.

References 

  1. Salzberg SP, Lachat ML, Zund G, Turina MI. Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) enables survival during 7h of sustained ventricular fibrillation. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2004;26(2):444–446
  2. The American Heart Association in Collaboration with the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR). Guidelines 2000 for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care – An International Consensus on Science. Resuscitation. 2000;46:1–448

PII: S0300-9572(05)00159-0

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2005.03.008

Resuscitation
Volume 66, Issue 2 , Pages 119-120 , August 2005