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Incidence of EMS-treated out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the United StatesThomas D Rea
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, USA
Resuscitation 63:17-24. 2004..The aim of the investigation was to determine a representative national incidence of emergency medical services (EMS)-treated all-rhythm and ventricular fibrillation (VF) SCA as well as survival...
Temperature and time stability of whole blood lactate: implications for feasibility of pre-hospital measurementChristopher W Seymour
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA
BMC Res Notes 4:169. 2011..abstract:..
A link between emergency dispatch and public access AEDs: potential implications for early defibrillationThomas Rea
EMS Division of Public Health, Seattle and King County, Seattle, WA, United States
Resuscitation 82:995-8. 2011..One approach to increase involvement is to couple emergency dispatch with mapping technology to identify public access automated external defibrillators (AEDs) that are on-site or nearby...- Incidence of out-of-hospital cardiac arrestThomas D Rea
Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Seattle, Washington 98101, USA
Am J Cardiol 93:1455-60. 2004..The results provide insights regarding absolute and population-attributable risk in clinically defined subgroups, information that may aid strategies aimed at reducing mortality from CA... - Epinephrine use by emergency medical technicians for presumed anaphylaxisThomas D Rea
Public Health Seattle and King County, Emergency Medical Services Division, Seattle, Washington 98104 4039, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 8:405-10. 2004..The aim of this study was to determine whether first-tier EMTs use epinephrine safely and appropriately for anaphylactic reactions... - Agonal respirations during cardiac arrestThomas D Rea
Public Health Seattle and King County, Emergency Medical Services Division, Seattle, Washington 98104 4039, USA
Curr Opin Crit Care 11:188-91. 2005..This review examines the physiologic understanding and clinical implications of agonal respirations during cardiac arrest... - Statin use and the risk of incident dementia: the Cardiovascular Health StudyThomas D Rea
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle 98101, USA
Arch Neurol 62:1047-51. 2005..Statins (3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitors) reduce cardiovascular risk through mechanisms that might affect the development of dementia... - Automated external defibrillators: to what extent does the algorithm delay CPR?Thomas D Rea
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 46:132-41. 2005..The purpose of this study is to evaluate outcomes of rhythm reanalyses immediately after shock, stacked shocks, and initial postshock pulse checks in relation to achieving a pulse and initiating CPR... - Performance of chest compressions by laypersons during the Public Access Defibrillation TrialThomas D Rea
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Resuscitation 81:293-6. 2010..Increasing evidence indicates that health professionals often may not achieve guideline standards for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Little is known about layperson CPR performance... - Increasing use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation during out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation arrest: survival implications of guideline changesThomas D Rea
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Circulation 114:2760-5. 2006..We hypothesized that survival would be better with the new protocol... - CPR during ischemia and reperfusion: a model for survival benefitsThomas D Rea
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Emergency Medical Services Division of Public Health, Seattle and King County, 401 5th Avenue, Suite 1200, Seattle, WA 98104, United States
Resuscitation 77:6-9. 2008..We derive a conceptual framework that describes cell survival as it relates to the ischemic and reperfusion stages and CPR effects... - Predicting survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: role of the Utstein data elementsThomas D Rea
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, 401 5th Avenue, Seattle, WA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 55:249-57. 2010..The Utstein elements are designed to assess these links and provide the basis for comparing outcomes within and across communities. We assess whether these measures sufficiently predict survival and explain outcome differences... - A population-based investigation of public access defibrillation: role of emergency medical services careThomas D Rea
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Resuscitation 81:163-7. 2010..We sought to determine the frequency, circumstances, and time trends of PAD AED and determine implications of PAD use for EMS providers... - CPR with chest compression alone or with rescue breathingThomas D Rea
Emergency Medical Services Division of Public Health for Seattle and King County, Seattle, Washington, USA
N Engl J Med 363:423-33. 2010..We hypothesized that the dispatcher instructions to bystanders to provide chest compression alone would result in improved survival as compared with instructions to provide chest compression plus rescue breathing... - Quality of life and prognosis among survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrestThomas D Rea
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Curr Opin Crit Care 10:218-23. 2004..We reviewed the topic of quality of life and prognosis of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors, focusing on more recent developments... - Hormone replacement therapy and the risk of incident congestive heart failure: the Cardiovascular Health StudyThomas D Rea
Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Metropolitan Park, East Tower, 1730 Minor Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 12:341-50. 2003..Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) affects several of the pathways that may be important in the development of CHF. We hypothesized that HRT would be associated with a decreased risk of incident CHF... - Temporal trends in sudden cardiac arrest: a 25-year emergency medical services perspectiveThomas D Rea
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Circulation 107:2780-5. 2003..We hypothesized that an evolving combination of beneficial and adverse factors may contribute to temporal patterns of survival... - Emergency medical services and mortality from heart disease: a community studyThomas D Rea
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 41:494-9. 2003..The purpose of this study was to examine the involvement and potential mortality benefit of out-of-hospital EMS care of cardiac arrest on community heart disease mortality... - Digoxin therapy and the risk of primary cardiac arrest in patients with congestive heart failure: effect of mild-moderate renal impairmentThomas D Rea
Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Department of Medicine, Metropolitan Park, 1730 Minor Avenue, East Tower, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 56:646-50. 2003..The cardiac safety of digoxin therapy for congestive heart failure (CHF) is a source of concern, especially among those with renal impairment... - Smoking status and risk for recurrent coronary events after myocardial infarctionThomas D Rea
University of Washington, Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Metropolitan Park, East Tower, 1730 Minor Avenue, Suite 1360, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Ann Intern Med 137:494-500. 2002..Questions remain about the importance of smoking and smoking cessation after incident myocardial infarction... - Temporal patterns in long-term survival after resuscitation from out-of-hospital cardiac arrestThomas D Rea
University of Washington, Seattle King County, Emergency Medical Services Division, Seattle, Wash 98104 4039, USA
Circulation 108:1196-201. 2003..We hypothesized that long-term survival would improve over time and that this temporal pattern would be most evident for cardiac causes of death... - Dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation and survival in cardiac arrestT D Rea
Public Health, Seattle King County, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Circulation 104:2513-6. 2001..However, little is known about the survival effectiveness of dispatcher-delivered telephone CPR instruction... - Body mass index and the risk of recurrent coronary events following acute myocardial infarctionT D Rea
Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98101, USA
Am J Cardiol 88:467-72. 2001..Thus, excess adiposity as measured by BMI was associated with an increased risk of recurrent coronary events following AMI, particularly among those who were obese... - Dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation: risks for patients not in cardiac arrestLindsay White
Emergency Medical Services Division, Public Health Seattle King County, 401 Fifth Ave, Suite 1200, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Circulation 121:91-7. 2010..We determined the frequency of dispatcher-assisted CPR for patients not in arrest and the frequency and severity of injury related to chest compressions... - Defibrillation waveform and post-shock rhythm in out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrestJohn Carpenter
Emergency Medical Services Division, Public Health, Seattle, King County, 999 Third Avenue, Suite 700, Seattle, WA 98104-4039, USA
Resuscitation 59:189-96. 2003..Additional investigation is needed to improve the understanding of the role of waveform and its potential interaction with other clinical factors in order to optimize survival in OHCA... - Socioeconomic status and survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrestSamuel O Clarke
University of Washington, Harborview Medical Center, Public Health-Seattle Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Acad Emerg Med 12:941-7. 2005..Future research should continue to investigate mechanisms through which SES is associated with OHCA survival... - Incidence of EMS-treated out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in EuropeChristie Atwood
School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Resuscitation 67:75-80. 2005..CONCLUSION: The results provide a framework to assess opportunities and limitations of EMS care with regard to the public health burden of cardiac arrest in Europe... - The incidence and significance of emesis associated with out-of-hospital cardiac arrestReed W Simons
School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Resuscitation 74:427-31. 2007..The goal of this investigation was to characterize the frequency, timing, and outcome association of emesis in persons suffering out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in order to understand the role and care-implications of emesis better... - Time to first shock by emergency medical technicians with automated external defibrillatorsAaron M Brillhart
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 6:373-7. 2002..0, 95% confidence interval = 2.1, 47.5). CONCLUSION: The findings suggest that a 1-minute goal and a 90-second minimum standard for time to first shock are appropriate for EMT AED defibrillation in the field... - Chronic health conditions and survival after out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrestHeather T Carew
Emergency Medical Services Division of Public Health, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Heart 93:728-31. 2007..To investigate whether chronic clinical comorbidity, as collected from emergency medical services (EMS) reports, influences survival after out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation (VF) cardiac arrest... - Procainamide and survival in ventricular fibrillation out-of-hospital cardiac arrestDavid T Markel
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 17:617-23. 2010..The association between procainamide and survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest was investigated to better determine the drug's potential role in resuscitation... - Intentions to use an automated external defibrillator during a cardiac emergency among a group of seniors trained in its operationHendrika W Meischke
Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Heart Lung 31:25-9. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: The likelihood that an elderly lay bystander will actually use an AED during a cardiac event may be closely tied to perceptions of his or her ability to operate an AED... - Factors impeding dispatcher-assisted telephone cardiopulmonary resuscitationSamantha R Hauff
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA
Ann Emerg Med 42:731-7. 2003..CONCLUSION: Factors potentially impeding telephone CPR can be identified. Although many are logistically challenging, some may be addressable and hence provide opportunities to strengthen the chain of survival... - An emergency medical services program of alternate destination of patient careRebecca A Schaefer
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 6:309-14. 2002..Based on physician review and patient interview, the alternate care intervention appeared to be safe and satisfactory. CONCLUSION: An EMS-based program may represent one approach to limiting nonurgent ED use... - The influence of emergency medical technician glucometry on paramedic involvementJared Strote
Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle 98195, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 9:318-21. 2005..Rapid glucose testing is a valuable tool for emergency medical services (EMS) patient evaluation and treatment. In most EMS systems, paramedics, but not emergency medical technicians (EMTs), are authorized to use glucometry... - Manual chest compression vs use of an automated chest compression device during resuscitation following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a randomized trialAl Hallstrom
Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
JAMA 295:2620-8. 2006..Compared with manual chest compression, an automated load-distributing band (LDB) chest compression device produces greater blood flow to vital organs and may improve resuscitation outcomes... - The relationship between shocks and survival in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients initially found in PEA or asystoleAl Hallstrom
Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, 1107 NE 45th St, Suite 505, Seattle, WA 98105 4689, USA
Resuscitation 74:418-26. 2007.... - Prediction of critical illness during out-of-hospital emergency careChristopher W Seymour
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington, Harborview Medical Center, PO Box 359762, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
JAMA 304:747-54. 2010..Early identification of nontrauma patients in need of critical care services in the emergency setting may improve triage decisions and facilitate regionalization of critical care... - Association of beta-blocker use with mortality among patients with congestive heart failure in the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS)Jeannie D Chan
Department of Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Am Heart J 150:464-70. 2005..This study assessed the association between beta-blocker therapy and mortality among community-dwelling older adults with CHF... - Red blood cell membrane alpha-linolenic acid and the risk of sudden cardiac arrestRozenn N Lemaitre
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Metabolism 58:534-40. 2009..The association was independent of red blood cell levels of long-chain n-3 fatty acids, trans-fatty acids, and linoleic acid. Higher membrane levels of alpha-linolenic acid are associated with higher risk of sudden cardiac arrest... - Endogenous red blood cell membrane fatty acids and sudden cardiac arrestRozenn N Lemaitre
Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Metabolism 59:1029-34. 2010..Further work is needed to investigate if conditions that favor de novo fatty acid synthesis, such as high-carbohydrate/low-fat diets, might also increase the risk of SCA... - Type 2 diabetes mellitus and the risk of sudden cardiac arrest in the communityDavid S Siscovick
Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Washington, Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, 1730 Minor Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Rev Endocr Metab Disord 11:53-9. 2010.... - Genetic variation in angiotensin-converting enzyme-related pathways associated with sudden cardiac arrest riskNona Sotoodehnia
Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98101, USA
Heart Rhythm 6:1306-14. 2009..Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE)-related pathways influence arrhythmias and sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) risk... - The relationship between time to arrival of emergency medical services (EMS) and survival from out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrestLaura S Gold
University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Seattle, WA, USA
Resuscitation 81:622-5. 2010.... - Three-phase model of cardiac arrest: time-dependent benefit of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitationChristina M Gilmore
Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
Am J Cardiol 98:497-9. 2006..The findings suggest that the transition from the electrical to circulatory phase may occur at about 5 minutes, and the circulatory phase may extend to 15 minutes... - Genetic variants of coagulation factor XIII, postmenopausal estrogen therapy, and risk of nonfatal myocardial infarctionAlexander P Reiner
Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, 1730 Minor Ave, Suite 1360, Seattle, WA 98101 1448, USA
Blood 102:25-30. 2003..03). If confirmed, these findings may permit a better assessment of the cardiovascular risks and benefits associated with postmenopausal estrogen therapy... - Resuscitation of residents with do not resuscitate orders in long-term care facilitiesLinda J Becker
Emergency Medical Services Division, Public Health of Seattle and King County, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 7:303-6. 2003..In some instances, these responses are for residents who have expressed wishes not to be resuscitated by signing a do not resuscitate (DNR) order... - Time to intubation and survival in prehospital cardiac arrestBradley D Shy
School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 8:394-9. 2004..These findings suggest that faster intubation times may increase odds of survival in prehospital cardiac arrest. Future prospective studies are merited to further understand this association... - Weight loss, muscle strength, and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in older adults with congestive heart failure or hypertensionGina D Schellenbaum
Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 53:1996-2000. 2005..To determine whether angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor use may be associated with weight maintenance and sustained muscle strength (measured by grip strength) in older adults... - Time trends in the use of beta-blockers and other pharmacotherapies in older adults with congestive heart failureNicholas L Smith
Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash, USA
Am Heart J 148:710-7. 2004..We describe beta-blocker and other medication temporal treatment trends of CHF in the Cardiovascular Health Study, a community-based cohort study of 5888 adults > or =65 years of age... - Survival associated with two sets of diagnostic criteria for congestive heart failureGina D Schellenbaum
Department of Epidemiology, Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Am J Epidemiol 160:628-35. 2004..Compared with Cardiovascular Health Study central adjudication, Framingham criteria for CHF identified a larger group of participants with incident CHF, but all-cause mortality rates were similar across these diagnostic classifications... - Beta2-adrenergic receptor genetic variants and risk of sudden cardiac deathNona Sotoodehnia
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Circulation 113:1842-8. 2006..Sympathetic activation influences the risk of ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death (SCD), mediated in part by the beta2-adrenergic receptor (B2AR). We investigated whether variation in the B2AR gene is associated with SCD risk... - Public access defibrillation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a community-based studyLinda L Culley
Public Health Seattle and King County, Emergency Medical Services Division, 999 Third Ave, Suite 700, Seattle, WA 98104 4039, USA
Circulation 109:1859-63. 2004..We evaluated the frequency and outcome of non-EMS AED use in a community experience... - Plasma phospholipid trans fatty acids, fatal ischemic heart disease, and sudden cardiac death in older adults: the cardiovascular health studyRozenn N Lemaitre
University of Washington, Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, 1730 Minor Ave, Suite 1360, Seattle, Washington 98101, USA
Circulation 114:209-15. 2006..To extend these findings, we investigated the associations of plasma phospholipid trans fatty acids with fatal ischemic heart disease (IHD) and sudden cardiac death... - Out-of-hospital care of critical drug overdoses involving cardiac arrestValentine L Paredes
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 11:71-4. 2004..This study investigates the involvement and potential mortality benefit of EMS for critical drug poisonings, characterized by cardiovascular collapse requiring cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)... - Congestive heart failure incidence and prognosis: case identification using central adjudication versus hospital discharge diagnosesGina D Schellenbaum
Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98101, and Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, MN, USA
Ann Epidemiol 16:115-22. 2006..We compared hospitalized congestive heart failure (CHF) incidence and prognosis estimates using hospital discharge diagnoses or central adjudication... - Disaster events and the risk of sudden cardiac death: a Washington State investigationLaura S Gold
University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Seattle, Washington, USA
Prehosp Disaster Med 22:313-7. 2007..Psychological distress following disaster events may increase the risk of sudden cardiac death. In 2001, the Nisqually earthquake and the 11 September terrorist attacks profoundly affected Washington state residents... - Prevalence of automated external defibrillators at cardiac arrest high-risk sitesHolly A Bartimus
School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 8:280-3. 2004..CONCLUSION: Although AEDs have diffused into high-risk sites in this community, the diffusion appears to vary by the type of site... - Withholding resuscitation: a new approach to prehospital end-of-life decisionsSylvia Feder
King County Medic One and Kent Fire Department, Kent, Washington, USA
Ann Intern Med 144:634-40. 2006..Emergency medical services (EMS) personnel often are not permitted to honor requests to withhold resuscitation at the end of life, particularly if there is no written do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order... - Web-based training for EMT continuing educationJohn M Jerin
Public Health Seattle and King County, Emergency Medical Services Division, Washington 98104, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 9:333-7. 2005..The purpose of this study was to determine whether web-based continuing education (CE) could be developed at a low cost and provide a high level of satisfaction and acceptance among EMTs... - The effect of pulse oximetry on emergency medical technician decision makingNathan T Van Dyk
School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 8:417-9. 2004..CONCLUSION: Prehospital pulse oximetry has a measurable influence on EMT decisions concerning ALS involvement in a two-tiered EMS system. It improves system efficiency by helping to match patients to an appropriate level of care... - Does the emperor of CPR wear clothes?Mickey S Eisenberg
Prehosp Emerg Care 8:339-40. 2004 - Diabetes, glucose level, and risk of sudden cardiac deathXavier Jouven
Service de cardiologie, Universite Paris 5, Faculté René Descartes, Hopital Europeen Georges Pompidou, 20 rue Leblanc, 75015 Paris, France
Eur Heart J 26:2142-7. 2005..The prevalence of diabetes mellitus in industrialized countries is rapidly increasing, and diabetes is suspected to carry a particular high risk for sudden cardiac death (SCD)... - Increasing first responder CPR during resuscitation of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest using automated external defibrillatorsSachita Shah
Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Mass General, Harvard University, Neville House, Boston SS, MA 02115, USA
Resuscitation 71:29-33. 2006..We assessed whether training and/or AED reconfiguration was associated with an increase in the proportion of time during which CPR was performed between first and second stacks of shocks... - A new piece in the unfinished ventricular fibrillation analysis puzzleFred W Chapman
Crit Care Med 36:2210-2. 2008 - Rationale, development and implementation of the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium Epistry-Cardiac ArrestLaurie J Morrison
Prehospital and Transport Medicine Research Program, Sunnybrook and Women s College Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Suite C753, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4N 3M5
Resuscitation 78:161-9. 2008..To describe the development, design and consequent scientific implications of the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC) population-based registry; ROC Epistry-Cardiac Arrest... - Energy doses for treatment of out-of-hospital pediatric ventricular fibrillationJoseph W Rossano
Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Resuscitation 70:80-9. 2006..Survival occurred at low and very high energy doses... - The Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium Epistry-Trauma: design, development, and implementation of a North American epidemiologic prehospital trauma registryCraig D Newgard
Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239 3098, United States
Resuscitation 78:170-8. 2008..This data registry samples patients from 264 EMS agencies transporting to 287 acute care hospitals in both the United States and Canada... - Cardiac arrest: survivors or still victims?Peter J Kudenchuk
Circulation 118:328-30. 2008 - Mental stress-induced ischemia and all-cause mortality in patients with coronary artery diseaseGina D Schellenbaum
Circulation 106:e183-4; author reply e183-4. 2002
Research Grants
- Home Automatic external Defibrillator TrainingThomas Rea; Fiscal Year: 2007..Alternatively, if nominal video-based approaches achieve comparable outcomes, training efforts can be streamlined at considerable cost savings with fewer impediments for distribution and dissemination. ..
- Human genetic variation and ventricular fibrillation resuscitation outcomesThomas D Rea; Fiscal Year: 2010..Analyses will incorporate standard and novel approaches of genetic association to assess if and how genetic variation influences resuscitation outcome. ..