Early echocardiography can predict cardiac events in emergency department patients with chest pain

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 550-557

  Kontos, M C ^a   Arrowood, J A ^a   Paulsen, W H J ^a   Nixon, J V ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; T WAVE; THORAX PAIN; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031979413     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-0644(98)70200-8     Document Type: Article

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