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Focus on Cardiac Arrest

Time to First Compression Using Medical Priority Dispatch System Compression-First Dispatcher-Assisted Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Protocols

, MHS, NREMT-P & , PhD, MBA, NREMT-P
Pages 242-250 | Received 09 Jul 2011, Accepted 25 Jul 2011, Published online: 12 Dec 2011

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