Clinically significant blunt cardiac trauma: Role of serum troponin levels combined with electrocardiographic findings

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 237-243

  Salim, Ali ^a,b   Velmahos, George C ^a   Jindal, Anurag ^a   Chan, Linda ^a   Vassiliu, Pantelis ^a   Belzberg, Howard ^a   Asensio, Juan ^a   Demetriades, Demetrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blunt cardiac trauma; Blunt myocardial injury; Cardiac complications; Echocardiography; Electrocardiography; Troponin

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN I;

ADULT; BLUNT TRAUMA; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD INJURY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DISEASE; HEART INJURY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINE INJURY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035102456     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-200102000-00008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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