What do we know about patients dying in the emergency department?

Resuscitation

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 163-170

  Vanbrabant, Peter ^a   Dhondt, Erwin ^a   Sabbe, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Cardiac arrest; Emergency department; Quality assessment; Sudden cardiac death

Indexed keywords

ASPHYXIA; AUTOPSY; BIOLOGY; BLEEDING; BRAIN DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATE; EMERGENCY WARD; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HANGING; HEART ARREST; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFECTION; INJURY; INTOXICATION; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY; REVIEW; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME;

EID: 1242337368     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2003.08.012     Document Type: Article

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