Resuscitation
Volume 82, Issue 9 , Pages 1148-1153 , September 2011

Value of post-resuscitation electrocardiogram in the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients

  • Georgios Sideris

      Affiliations

    • Cardiology Department, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Lariboisière Hospital, Paris, France
    • INSERM U942, Paris, France
    • Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
    • These authors contributed equally to this work.
    • ,
  • Sebastian Voicu

      Affiliations

    • Cardiology Department, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Lariboisière Hospital, Paris, France
    • INSERM U942, Paris, France
    • Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
    • These authors contributed equally to this work.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Service de Réanimation Médicale, Hôpital Lariboisière, 2 rue Ambroise, Paré 75475 Cedex 10, France. Tel.: +33 624681771; fax: +33 149958964.
    • ,
  • Jean Guillaume Dillinger

      Affiliations

    • Cardiology Department, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Lariboisière Hospital, Paris, France
    • INSERM U942, Paris, France
    • Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Victor Stratiev

      Affiliations

    • Cardiology Department, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Lariboisière Hospital, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Damien Logeart

      Affiliations

    • Cardiology Department, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Lariboisière Hospital, Paris, France
    • INSERM U942, Paris, France
    • Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Claire Broche

      Affiliations

    • SAMU de Paris, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Lariboisière Hospital, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Benoit Vivien

      Affiliations

    • SAMU de Paris, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Necker Hospital, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Pierre-Yves Brun

      Affiliations

    • Medical Intensive Care Unit, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Lariboisière Hospital, Paris, France
    • Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Nicolas Deye

      Affiliations

    • Medical Intensive Care Unit, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Lariboisière Hospital, Paris, France
    • INSERM U942, Paris, France
    • Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Dragos Capan

      Affiliations

    • Canadian Institute for Health Information, Department of Statistics, Toronto, Canada
    • ,
  • Mounir Aout

      Affiliations

    • Statistics Department, Clinical Research Unit, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Lariboisière Hospital, Paris, France
    • Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Bruno Megarbane

      Affiliations

    • Medical Intensive Care Unit, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Lariboisière Hospital, Paris, France
    • INSERM U942, Paris, France
    • Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Frédéric J. Baud

      Affiliations

    • Medical Intensive Care Unit, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Lariboisière Hospital, Paris, France
    • INSERM U942, Paris, France
    • Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
    • ,
  • Patrick Henry

      Affiliations

    • Cardiology Department, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Lariboisière Hospital, Paris, France
    • INSERM U942, Paris, France
    • Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France

Received 18 January 2011 ,Revised 23 March 2011 ,Accepted 25 April 2011.

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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.2011.04.023.

PII: S0300-9572(11)00309-1

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2011.04.023

Resuscitation
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