Air Medical Transport of Cardiac Patients

Chest

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1937-1945

  Essebag, Vidal ^a   Halabi, Abdul R ^a   Churchill Smith, Michael ^a   Lutchmedial, Sohrab ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b SAINT JOHN REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aeromedical transport; Air ambulance; Air medical transport; Cardiac transport; Myocardial infarction; Patient transport

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; INFUSION FLUID; INOTROPIC AGENT;

ALTITUDE; AMBULANCE; AMBULATORY CARE; ANAMNESIS; AORTA BALLOON; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFECT; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EISENMENGER COMPLEX; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HELICOPTER; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORBIDITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 0242552159     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.124.5.1937     Document Type: Article

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