Non-traumatic aortic dissection or rupture as cause of cardiac arrest: Presentation and outcome

Resuscitation

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 143-150

  Meron, Giora ^a   Kürkciyan, Istepan ^a   Sterz, Fritz ^a   Tobler, Karin ^a   Losert, Heidrun ^a   Sedivy, Roland ^a   Laggner, Anton N ^a   Domanovits, Hans ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Aorta; Cardiac arrest; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CIRCULATION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FLANK PAIN; HEART ARREST; HEART RHYTHM; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SEDATION; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC AORTA; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1242337373     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2003.10.005     Document Type: Article

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