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Improving performance of emergency medical services personnel during resuscitation of cardiac arrest patients
Current Opinion in Critical Care, 05/20/09
Kellum MJ - Following the introduction of new prehospital protocol for emergency medical services that initially dramatically improved survival of patients with witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, the authors found that without an adequate training and retraining program, survival rates decreased. A new training methodology called McMAID was developed to improve the quality of the resuscitation effort.
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