Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 5 , Pages 534-538 , May 2010

Early CT signs in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors: Temporal profile and prognostic significance

  • Joji Inamasu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Saiseikai Utsunomiya Hospital, Utsunomiya, Japan
    • Department of Neurosurgery, Saiseikai Utsunomiya Hospital, Utsunomiya, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Emergency Medicine, Saiseikai Utsunomiya Hospital, 911-1 Takebayashi, Utsunomiya 321-0974, Japan. Tel.: +81 28 626 5500; fax: +81 28 626 5594.
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  • Satoru Miyatake

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Saiseikai Utsunomiya Hospital, Utsunomiya, Japan
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  • Masaru Suzuki

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Saiseikai Utsunomiya Hospital, Utsunomiya, Japan
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  • Masashi Nakatsukasa

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Saiseikai Utsunomiya Hospital, Utsunomiya, Japan
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  • Hideto Tomioka

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Saiseikai Utsunomiya Hospital, Utsunomiya, Japan
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  • Masanori Honda

      Affiliations

    • Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Saiseikai Utsunomiya Hospital, Utsunomiya, Japan
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  • Kenichi Kase

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Saiseikai Utsunomiya Hospital, Utsunomiya, Japan
    • ,
  • Kenji Kobayashi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Saiseikai Utsunomiya Hospital, Utsunomiya, Japan

Received 26 August 2009 ,Revised 17 November 2009 ,Accepted 18 January 2010.

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☆ A Spanish translated version of the summary of this article appears as Appendix in the final online version at doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.01.012.

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doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.01.012

Resuscitation
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