Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 34, Issue 6 , Pages 720-729, December 1999

Checking for Breathing: Evaluation of the Diagnostic Capability of Emergency Medical Services Personnel, Physicians, Medical Students, and Medical Laypersons☆☆☆★★★

Presented at the Fourth Congress of the European Resuscitation Council (ERC), Copenhagen, Denmark, June 1998 (received award in best oral presentations).

From the Institute for Emergency Medicine and Prehospital Care,* the Departments of Surgery‡ and Anesthesiology,§ Downtown Medical Center, University of Munich, Medical School, Munich, Germany

Received 11 August 1998; received in revised form 8 April 1999; accepted 29 April 1999.

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☆ Address for reprints: Matthias Ruppert, MD, Arbeitskreis Notfallmedizin und Rettungswesen (ANR), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Nußbaumstraße 20, 80336 Munich, Germany; 49 89 51 60 49 50, fax 49 89 51 60 49 52; E-mail matthias.ruppert@anr.med.uni-muenchen.de.

☆☆ This article is copublished in Notfall und Rettungsmedizin 1999;2:18-28.

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Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 34, Issue 6 , Pages 720-729, December 1999

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