Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 5 , Pages 549-554 , May 2010

Impact of transport to critical care medical centers on outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

  • Kentaro Kajino

      Affiliations

    • Emergency and Critical Care Medical Center, Osaka Police Hospital, Kitayama-cho, 10-31 Tennouji-ku, 543-0035 Osaka, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +81 06 6771 6051; fax: +81 06 6775 2889.
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  • Taku Iwami

      Affiliations

    • Kyoto University, Health Services, Kyoto, Japan
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  • Mohamud Daya

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, United States
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  • Tatsuya Nishiuchi

      Affiliations

    • Osaka Prefectural Senshu Critical Care Medical Center, Izumisano, Japan
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  • Yasuyuki Hayashi

      Affiliations

    • Senri Critical Care Medical Center, Osaka Saiseikai Senri Hospital, Suita, Japan
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  • Tetsuhisa Kitamura

      Affiliations

    • Kyoto University, Health Services, Kyoto, Japan
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  • Taro Irisawa

      Affiliations

    • Department of Traumatology and Acute Critical Medicine, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
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  • Tomohiko Sakai

      Affiliations

    • Department of Traumatology and Acute Critical Medicine, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
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  • Yasuyuki Kuwagata

      Affiliations

    • Department of Traumatology and Acute Critical Medicine, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
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  • Atushi Hiraide

      Affiliations

    • Center for Medical Education, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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  • Masashi Kishi

      Affiliations

    • Emergency and Critical Care Medical Center, Osaka Police Hospital, Kitayama-cho, 10-31 Tennouji-ku, 543-0035 Osaka, Japan
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  • Shigeru Yamayoshi

      Affiliations

    • Emergency and Critical Care Medical Center, Osaka Police Hospital, Kitayama-cho, 10-31 Tennouji-ku, 543-0035 Osaka, Japan

Received 18 January 2010 ,Revised 28 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.2010.02.008.

☆☆ This study was supported by Grant-in-Aid for University and Society Collaboration, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific research from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture, Japan (No. 11794023, 19390459), and Health and Labor Science Research Grant for Cardiovascular Diseases (H16-Shinkin-02), Comprehensive Research on Cardiovascular Diseases, and Research on Medical Safety and Health Technology Assessment from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

PII: S0300-9572(10)00091-2

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.02.008

Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 5 , Pages 549-554 , May 2010

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