Rapid optimization: Strategies for optimal care of decompensated congestive heart-failure patients in the emergency department

Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2002, Pages

  Peacock, W Frank ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

B type natriuretic peptide; Heart failure; Nesiritide; Nitroglycerin

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; FUROSEMIDE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; NESIRITIDE;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFICACY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICARE; PATIENT CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SAFETY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; DECISION TREES; DIURETICS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; NATRIURETIC AGENTS; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; NITROGLYCERIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036384915     PISSN: 15306550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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