The challenges of responding to "high-tech" cardiac implant patients in crisis

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 425-432

  Bramstedt, Katrina A ^a   Simeon, Daniel J ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cardiac; Device; Emergency; Implant; Prehospital; Training

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ARTIFICIAL HEART; BLEEDING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORONARY STENT; DEVICE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART SURGERY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; RESTENOSIS; RESUSCITATION; SAFETY; SEPSIS; STROKE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0036792731     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903120290938076     Document Type: Article

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