Prevalence of aspirin use among patients calling 9-1-1 for chest pain

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1146-1149

  Jaffy, Matthew B ^a,d   Meischke, Hendrika ^b,c   Eisenberg, Mickey S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Ctr Eval of Emergency Med Serv   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspirin; Chest pain; Emergency medical services; Myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; TICLOPIDINE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; DRUG USE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX PAIN;

EID: 0031731657     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1998.tb02686.x     Document Type: Article

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