Chest pain unit and decentralized testing of cardiac markers

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 311, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 63-66

  Casagranda, Ivo ^a   Boverio, Riccardo ^a   Baio, Rosario ^a   Cecconi, Dalio ^a   Marenco, Mauro ^a  

^a C Arrigo Children's Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; CK MB; Emergency Department; Myoglobin; Stratus CS; Troponin I

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CREATINE KINASE MB; MYOGLOBIN; TROPONIN I;

ACCELERATION; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANALYZER; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CENTRALIZATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; ITALY; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; ST SEGMENT; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARDIOLOGY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; CHEST PAIN; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLITICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0035884879     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-8981(01)00561-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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