Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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Acad Emerg Med
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To determine whether population density is an independent predictor of survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest managed by basic life support (BLS) services using automated external defibrillators (AEDs). ⋯ Population density is strongly associated with survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. BLS services within areas with population densities < or = 100/sq mi sustained little benefit from the addition of AEDs to their treatment of patients who had out-of-hospital cardiac arrests.
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Repeat visits by elder emergency department patients: sentinel events.