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The relationship between time to arrival of emergency medical services (EMS) and survival from out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest

  • Laura S. Gold

      Affiliations

    • University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Seattle, WA, USA
    • Division of Emergency Medical Services, Public Health Seattle and King County, Seattle, WA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: 401 5th Avenue, Suite 1200, Seattle, WA 98104, USA. Tel.: +1 206 263 8621; fax: +1 206 296 4866.
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  • Carol E. Fahrenbruch

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medical Services, Public Health Seattle and King County, Seattle, WA, USA
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  • Thomas D. Rea

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medical Services, Public Health Seattle and King County, Seattle, WA, USA
    • University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
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  • Mickey S. Eisenberg

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medical Services, Public Health Seattle and King County, Seattle, WA, USA
    • University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA

Received 26 August 2009 ,Revised 26 January 2010 ,Accepted 8 February 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.2010.02.004.

PII: S0300-9572(10)00084-5

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.02.004

Resuscitation
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