Resuscitation
Volume 73, Issue 1 , Pages 154-160 , April 2007

Association of delay to first intervention with return of spontaneous circulation in a swine model of cardiac arrest

Received 16 June 2006 ,Revised 14 July 2006 ,Accepted 19 July 2006.

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☆ Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, San Francisco, CA, 20 May 2006 by Dr. Jon C. Rittenberger.

☆☆ A Spanish translated version of the summary of this article appears as Appendix in the final online version at 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2006.07.029.

PII: S0300-9572(06)00544-2

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2006.07.029

Resuscitation
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