Prospective study of accuracy and outcome of emergency ultrasound for abdominal aortic aneurysm over two years

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 867-871

  Tayal, Vivek S ^a   Graf, Christian D ^b   Gibbs, Michael A ^b  

^a CMC   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA); Accuracy; Emergency physician; Emergency ultrasound (EUS)

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSULTATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URBAN AREA;

EID: 0042420643     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/aemj.10.8.867     Document Type: Article

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