Assessment of a creatine kinase-MB/myoglobin kit in the prehospital setting in patients presenting with acute nontraumatic chest pain: The 'Shahal' experience

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1085-1089

  Roth, Arie ^a,b   Malov, Naomi ^a   Bloch, Yoram ^a   Golovner, Michal ^a   Slesarenko, Yuri ^a   Naveh, Rachel ^a   Kaplinsky, Elieser ^a   Laniado, Shlomo ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chest pain; Creatine phosphokinase; Electrocardiogram; Intensive care; Myocardial infarction; Myoglobin; Prehospital

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE MB;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENZYME ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX PAIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULANCES; CHEST PAIN; CREATINE KINASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOGLOBIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033046288     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199906000-00025     Document Type: Article

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