Value of the History in Evaluating Patients for Early Myocardial Ischemia in Observation Chest Pain Centers

Critical Pathways in Cardiology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 104-112

  Bahr, Raymond D ^a  

^a Paul Dudley White Coronary Care System   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATINE KINASE MB;

ANGINA PECTORIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SERUM; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 0142259196     PISSN: 1535282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HPC.0000077043.34200.74     Document Type: Review

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