Physician attitudes about prehospital 12-lead ECGs in chest pain patients

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 33-37

  Brainard, Andrew H ^a   Froman, Philip ^b   Alarcon, Maria E ^b   Raynovich, Bill ^a   Tandberg, Dan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

12 lead ECG; acute myocardial infarction; advance cardiac life support; cardiology; electrocardiogram; emergency; emergency medical services; emergency physician; prehospital; reperfusion; standard of care; survey

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; THORAX PAIN; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHEST PAIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; PHYSICIANS; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036365520     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00000091     Document Type: Article

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