Trained and supervised physician assistants can safely perform diagnostic cardiac catheterization with coronary angiography

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 157-160

  Krasuski, Richard A ^a   Wang, Andrew ^a   Ross, Carole ^a   Bolles, John F ^a   Moloney, Erica L ^a   Kelly, Larry P ^a   Harrison, J Kevin ^a   Bashore, Thomas M ^a   Sketch Jr , Michael H ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac catheterization; Cardiology; Coronary angiography

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; DEFIBRILLATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTUBATION; LUNG EDEMA; MEDICAL EDUCATION; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PACEMAKER; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE; TIME; TRAINING; VASCULAR DISEASE;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARDIOLOGY; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CREATININE; FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 0038725598     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.10491     Document Type: Article

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