Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 5 , Pages 512-517 , May 2010

Pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Korea: A nationwide population-based study

  • Chang Bae Park

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
    • ,
  • Sang Do Shin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Emergency Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 101 Daehakro, Jongno-Gu, Seoul 110-744, Korea. Tel.: +82 2 2072 3257; fax: +82 2 741 7855.
    • ,
  • Gil Joon Suh

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
    • ,
  • Ki Ok Ahn

      Affiliations

    • Center for Education and Training of EMS and Rescue, Seoul Fire Academy, Seoul, South Korea
    • ,
  • Won Chul Cha

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Seoguipo Medical Center, Cheju, South Korea
    • ,
  • Kyoung Jun Song

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea
    • ,
  • Soo Jin Kim

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, Seoul National University School of Public Health, Seoul, South Korea
    • ,
  • Eui Jung Lee

      Affiliations

    • Seoul Emergency Medical Information Center, Seoul, South Korea
    • ,
  • Marcus Eng Hock Ong

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore

Received 1 September 2009 ,Revised 22 November 2009 ,Accepted 25 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.2009.11.022.

☆☆ Study type: An observational study.

PII: S0300-9572(09)00627-3

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.11.022

Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 5 , Pages 512-517 , May 2010

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