Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 4 , Pages 410-417 , April 2010

Post-resuscitative clinical features in the first hour after achieving sustained ROSC predict the duration of survival in children with non-traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

  • Yan-Ren Lin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan
    • Department of Biological Science and Technology and Institute of Biochemical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Emergency Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, 135 Nanshsiao Street, Changhua 500, Taiwan. Tel.: +886 4 7238595x1374; fax: +886 4 7289233.
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  • Chao-Jui Li

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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  • Tung-Kung Wu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biological Science and Technology and Institute of Biochemical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Yu-Jun Chang

      Affiliations

    • Epidemiology and Biostatistics Center, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan
    • Institute of Environmental Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Shih-Chang Lai

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan
    • Department of Biological Science and Technology and Institute of Biochemical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Tzu-An Liu

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Cellular and System Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Ming-Hau Hsiao

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Chu-Chung Chou

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan
    • Institute of Medicine, Chungshan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Chin-Fu Chang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan

Received 31 August 2009 ,Revised 6 January 2010 ,Accepted 10 January 2010.

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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.2010.01.006.

PII: S0300-9572(10)00024-9

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.01.006

Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 4 , Pages 410-417 , April 2010

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