Continuous electrocardiographic monitoring and cardiac arrest outcomes in 8,932 telemetry ward patients

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 647-652

  Schull, Michael J ^a,b,c   Redelmeier, Donald A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Continuous ECG; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TELEMETRY;

EID: 0034080171     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2000.tb02038.x     Document Type: Article

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