Prehospital ECG monitoring of chest pain patients

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 604-607

  Purvis, Gregory M ^a   Weiss, Steven J ^b   Gaffney, Francis A ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac treatment; Chest pain; ECG; Electrocardiography; Myocardial infarction; Out of hospital; Prehospital

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE MB; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HEPARIN; MAGNESIUM; METOPROLOL; MORPHINE; OXYGEN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY STENT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; OXYGEN THERAPY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX PAIN;

EID: 0032875176     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-6757(99)90208-5     Document Type: Article

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