Resuscitation
Volume 36, Issue 3 , Pages 165-168 , March 1998

Should a cancer patient be resuscitated following an in-hospital cardiac arrest?

  • Joseph Varon

      Affiliations

    • Pulmonary and Critical Care Section, Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Emergency Services, The Methodist Hospital, 6565 Fannin M 196, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 713 7931912; fax: +1 713 7931851; e-mail: jvaron@bcm.tmc.edu
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  • Garrett L Walsh

      Affiliations

    • Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
    • ,
  • Paul E. Marik

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts, Medical Intensive Care Unit, St. Vincent Hospital, Worcester, MA 01640, USA
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  • Robert E Fromm

      Affiliations

    • Pulmonary and Critical Care Section, Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Emergency Services, The Methodist Hospital, 6565 Fannin M 196, Houston, TX 77030, USA
    • Cardiology Section, Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Emergency Services, The Methodist Hospital, 6565 Fannin M 196, Houston, TX 77030, USA

Received 17 August 1997 ,Revised 5 December 1997 ,Accepted 5 December 1997.

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Resuscitation
Volume 36, Issue 3 , Pages 165-168 , March 1998

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