Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 3 , Pages 297-301 , March 2010

Detrended fluctuation analysis predicts successful defibrillation for out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest

  • Lian-Yu Lin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Men-Tzung Lo

      Affiliations

    • Research Center for Adaptive Data Analysis, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Patrick Chow-In Ko

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, No. 7, Chun-Shan S. Road, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Chen Lin

      Affiliations

    • Research Center for Adaptive Data Analysis, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
    • Institute of Systems Biology and Bioinformatics, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Wen-Chu Chiang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, No. 7, Chun-Shan S. Road, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Yen-Bin Liu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Kun Hu

      Affiliations

    • Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    • Division of Gerontology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    • ,
  • Jiunn-Lee Lin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Wen-Jone Chen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, No. 7, Chun-Shan S. Road, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Matthew Huei-Ming Ma

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, No. 7, Chun-Shan S. Road, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +886 2 23562831; fax: +886 2 23223150.

Received 12 September 2009 ,Revised 2 November 2009 ,Accepted 1 December 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.2009.12.003.

PII: S0300-9572(09)00626-1

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.12.003

Resuscitation
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