Acute chest pain-a stepwise approach, the challenge of the correct clinical diagnosis

Resuscitation

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 9-16

  Domanovits, Hans ^a   Schillinger, Martin ^a   Paulis, Monika ^a   Rauscha, Fritz ^a   Thoennissen, Jana ^a   Nikfardjam, Mariam ^a   Laggner, Anton N ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SUDDEN DEATH; THORAX PAIN; TIME; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CHEST PAIN; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036781856     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9572(02)00209-5     Document Type: Article

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