Is there gender bias in the prehospital management of patients with acute chest pain?

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 331-334

  Rothrock, S G ^a   Brandt, P ^a   Godfrey, B ^a   Silvestri, S ^a   Pagane, J ^a  

^a ORLANDO REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest pain; Gender bias; Prehospital; Women

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; NARCOTIC AGENT; OXYGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; THORAX PAIN;

EID: 0034797133     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903120190939454     Document Type: Article

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7. Is there a gender difference in the aetiology of chest pain and symptoms associated with acute myocardial infarction?
8. Gender differences in symptom presentation associated with coronary heart disease
9. How men and women with heart disease seek care: The delay experience
10. Presentations of acute myocardial infarction in men and women