Use of Automated External Defibrillators by a U.S. Airline
Open Access
- 26 October 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 343 (17), 1210-1216
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm200010263431702
Abstract
Passengers who have ventricular fibrillation aboard commercial aircraft rarely survive, owing to the delay in obtaining emergency care and defibrillation.Keywords
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