Improved out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival through the inexpensive optimization of an existing defibrillation program: OPALS study phase II. Ontario Prehospital Advanced Life Support.

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Published in JAMA on April 07, 1999

Authors

I G Stiell1, G A Wells, B J Field, D W Spaite, V J De Maio, R Ward, D P Munkley, M B Lyver, L G Luinstra, T Campeau, J Maloney, E Dagnone

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1: Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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