Use of atropine to maintain higher heart rate after exercise during treadmill stress echocardiography

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 43-45

  Banerjee, Supratim ^a,b   Yalamanchili, Venkata S ^a,b   Abdul Baki, Talal ^a,b   Stoddard, Marcus F ^a,b  

^a University of Louisville ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREADMILL EXERCISE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECT; EVALUATION; EXERCISE TEST; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATROPINE; BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 0036357869     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mje.2002.119004     Document Type: Article

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