Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 11 , Pages 1499-1504 , November 2010

How many emergency dispatches occurred per cardiac arrest?

  • Nicholas J. Johnson

      Affiliations

    • University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, United States
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Emergency Services, Room 1E21, San Francisco General Hospital, 1001 Potrero Ave., San Francisco, CA 94110, United States. Tel.: +1 415 793 1716; fax: +1 415 920 2963.
    • ,
  • Karl A. Sporer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, United States
    • San Francisco Fire Department, United States

Received 2 February 2010 ,Revised 12 June 2010 ,Accepted 17 June 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.2010.06.019.

PII: S0300-9572(10)00366-7

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.06.019

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