TY - JOUR T1 - Out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation in three adolescents JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 153 LP - 155 DO - 10.1136/adc.2008.139550 VL - 94 IS - 2 AU - A Khoury AU - I Shavit Y1 - 2009/02/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/94/2/153.abstract N2 - We describe three adolescents who experienced sudden cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation in an out-of-hospital setting and survived with good neurological outcome despite delayed time to defibrillation. All three were treated with prolonged cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) by certified basic life support providers prior to first defibrillation. This report stresses the importance of early, minimally interrupted, chest compression CPR in children who suffer sudden cardiac arrest in the out-of-hospital setting where defibrillation could be delayed. ER -