Targeted age, device deployment, and problems associated with pediatric defibrillation in pediatric prehospital emergency medical care settings in Japan

Aim The use of automated external defibrillators was expanded to include infants according to the 2010 cardiopulmonary resuscitation guidelines in Japan. However, deployment has been slower for pediatric patients in Japan, because there are fewer appropriate pediatric patients for automated external...

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Main Authors: Noriyuki Kaku, Masahiko Nitta, Takashi Muguruma, Kohei Tsukahara, Emily Knaup, Nobuyuki Nosaka, Yuki Enomoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-10-01
Series:Acute Medicine & Surgery
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ams2.194