Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 11 , Pages 1488-1491 , November 2010

Bystander CPR in south east Scotland increases over 16 years

  • R. Ghose

      Affiliations

    • University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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  • R.M. Lyon

      Affiliations

    • Emergency Department, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 51 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 4SA, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 0131 242 1338; fax: +44 0131 242 1339.
    • ,
  • G.R. Clegg

      Affiliations

    • Emergency Department, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 51 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 4SA, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • A.J. Gray

      Affiliations

    • Emergency Department, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 51 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 4SA, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • on behalf of the Emergency Medicine Research Group Edinburgh

Received 27 April 2010 ,Revised 27 May 2010 ,Accepted 14 June 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.2010.06.012.

PII: S0300-9572(10)00359-X

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.06.012

Resuscitation
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