Use of the electrocardiogram in acute myocardial infarction

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 348, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 933-940

  Zimetbaum, Peter J ^a   Josephson, Mark E ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANGIOPLASTY; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HEART PACING; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PR INTERVAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; Q WAVE; QRS COMPLEX; REVASCULARIZATION; REVIEW; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; T WAVE; VAGUS TONE;

ALGORITHMS; ARRHYTHMIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0037422025     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra022700     Document Type: Review

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