Pulmonary embolism as cause of cardiac arrest: Presentation and outcome

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 160, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1529-1535

  Kürkciyan, Istepan ^a   Meron, Giora ^a   Sterz, Fritz ^a,b   Janata, Karin ^a   Domanovits, Hans ^a   Holzer, Michael ^a   Berzlanovich, Andrea ^a   Bankl, Hans C ^a   Laggner, Anton N ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASYSTOLE; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 0342313469     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.160.10.1529     Document Type: Article

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