Johan Herlitz

Out of hospital cardiac arrest outside home in Sweden, change in characteristics, outcome and availability for public access defibrillation (2009)

Ringh, Mattias, Herlitz, Johan, Hollenberg, Jacob, Rosenqvist, Mårten, Svensson, Leif

Abstract Background A large proportion of patients who suffer from out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) outside home are theoretically candidates for public access defibrillation (PAD). We describe...

Initial emergency medical dispatching and prehospital needs assessment: a prospective study of the Swedish ambulance service (2007)

Hjälte, Lena, Suserud, Björn-Ove, Herlitz, Johan, Karlberg, Ingvar

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the setting of priorities and patients' need for the ambulance service. METHODS: A prospective, consecutive study was conducted during a 6-week period. The ambulance staff...

Initial emergency medical dispatching and prehospital needs assessment: a prospective study of the Swedish ambulance service (2007)

Hjälte, Lena, Suserud, Björn-Ove, Herlitz, Johan, Karlberg, Ingvar

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the setting of priorities and patients' need for the ambulance service. METHODS: A prospective, consecutive study was conducted during a 6-week period. The ambulance staff...

Effect of fixed low-dose warfarin added to aspirin in the long term after acute myocardial infarction: the LoWASA Study (2004)

Herlitz, Johan, Holm, Johan, Peterson, Magnus, Karlson, Björn W, Haglid Evander, Maria, Erhardt, Leif, ...

Aim To evaluate whether long-term treatment with a fixed low dose of warfarin in combination with aspirin improves the prognosis compared with aspirin treatment alone after an acute myocardial...

A short delay from out of hospital cardiac arrest to call for ambulance increases survival (2003)

Herlitz, Johan, Engdahl, Johan, Svensson, Leif, Young, Marie, Ängquist, Karl-Axel, Holmberg, Stig

Aim To describe the relative impact on survival of the delay from estimated time of collapse to call for an ambulance among patients who suffer from a bystander witnessed out of hospital cardiac...

Mortality prediction in diabetic patients with myocardial infarction: experiences from the DIGAMI study (1997)

Malmberg, Klas, Rydén, Lars, Hamsten, Anders, Herlitz, Johan, Waldenström, Anders, Wedel, Hans

Objectives: We analysed predictors of 1-year mortality following acute myocardial infarction in patients with diabetes mellitus by applying uni- and multivariate statistics on the DIGAMI cohort....