Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo. Datos Básicos de la Salud y de los servicios sanitarios 2003. Disponible en: www. msc.es
Anonymous. Joint Comission on Accredition of Healthcare Organizations. In-hospital resuscitation requirements reinstated for hospitals. Joint Comission Perspectives. 1998. p. 18-5.
Indicadores de calidad en el enfermo crítico. Indicadores nº 9 y 10. Sociedad Española de Medicina Intensiva, Crítica y Unidades Coronarias (SEMICYUC) 2005.
Perales N, Pérez Vela JL, Bernat Adell A, Cerdá Vila M, Alvarez-Fernández JA, Arribas López P, et al. La Resucitación Cardiopulmonar en el Hospital. Recomendaciones 2005. Med Intensiva 2005;29(6):349-56
Nolan J, Baskett P, editores. European Resuscitation Council Guidelines for Resuscitation 2005. Resuscitation 2005;67:S1-S181.
Peberdy MA, Kaye W, Ornato JP, Larkin GL, Nadkarni V, Mancini ME, et al. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation of adults in the hospital: A report of 14.720 cardiac arrests from the National Registry of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. Resuscitation. 2003: 58:297-308.
Chan PS, Krumholz HM, Nichol G, Nallamothu BK, American Heart Association National Registry of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Investigators. Delayed time to defibrillation after in-hospital cardiac arrest. N Engl J Med 2008;358:9-17.
Nadkarni VM, Larkin GL, Peberdy MA, Carey SM, Kaye W, Manzini ME, et al. First documented rhythm and clinical outcome from in-hospital cardiac arrest among children and adults. JAMA 2006; 295: 50-57
Arribas López P, Perales Rodríguez de Viguri N, Gutiérrez Rodríguez J, Sánchez-Izquierdo Riera JA. Elementos básicos para la respuesta a la fibrilación ventricular en el hospital. Modelo de programa para la implantación de la desfibrilación temprana. En: Perales Rodríguez de Viguri N, Pérez Vela JL. La desfibrilación temprana. Madrid: Ed. Arán; 2004. p. 223-51.
Perales Rodríguez de Viguri N, Jiménez Murillo L, González Díaz G, Álvarez Fernández JA, et al. La desfibrilación temprana: conclusiones y recomendaciones del I Foro de Expertos en Desfibrilación Semiautomática. Emergencias. 2002;14:328-5. y Med Intensiva. 2003;27: 488-94.
Cusnir H, Tongia R, Sheca KP, Kavesteen D, Segal RR, Nowakiwskyj VN, et al. In hospital cardiac arrest: a role for automatic defibrillation. Resuscitation 2004; 63: 183-188.
Gombotz H, Weh B, Mitterndorfer W, Rehaz P. In-hospital cardiac resuscitation outside the ICU by nursing staff equipped with automated external defibrillators-The first 500 cases. Resuscitation 2006; 70: 416-422.
Kramer-Johansen J, Edelson DP, Abella BS, Becker LB, Wik L, Steen SA. Pauses in chest compression and inappropriate shocks: A comparison of manual and semi-automatic defibrillation attempts. Resuscitation 2007; 73: 212-220.
Priori SG, Bossaert LL, Chamberlain DA, Napolitano C, Arntz HR, Koster RV, et al. Policy statement ESC-ERC recommendations for the use of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in Europe. Resuscitation. 2004;60;245-52 y European Health Journal. 2004;25:437-
Cummins RO, Sanders A, Mancini E, Hazinski MF. Inhospital resuscitation: A statement for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association Emergency Cardiac Care Committee and the Advanced Cardiac Life Support,
Tormo Calandín C. La formación hospitalaria de la resucitación cardiopulmonar. En: Perales Rodríguez de Viguri N, Pérez Vela JL, editores. La desfibrilación temprana. Madrid: Ed. Arán; 2004. p. 263-95.