Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 4 , Pages 383-387 , April 2010

Cardiac arrest in the catheterisation laboratory: A 5-year experience of using mechanical chest compressions to facilitate PCI during prolonged resuscitation efforts

  • Henrik Wagner

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Lund University Hospital, 221 85 Lund, Sweden
    • ,
  • Christian J. Terkelsen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology B, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
    • ,
  • Hans Friberg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
    • ,
  • Jan Harnek

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Lund University Hospital, 221 85 Lund, Sweden
    • ,
  • Karl Kern

      Affiliations

    • Sarver Heart Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
    • ,
  • Jens Flensted Lassen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology B, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
    • ,
  • Goran K. Olivecrona

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Lund University Hospital, 221 85 Lund, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +46 46173053; fax: +46 46176011.

Received 3 July 2009 ,Revised 14 October 2009 ,Accepted 11 November 2009.

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☆ A Spanish translated version of the abstract of this article appears as Appendix in the final online version at doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.11.006.

PII: S0300-9572(09)00584-X

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.11.006

Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 4 , Pages 383-387 , April 2010

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