Ventricular fibrillation in acute myocardial infarction in spanish patients: Results of the ariam database

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 2144-2151

  Ruiz Bailén, Manuel ^a   Aguayo De Hoyos, Eduardo ^b   Ruiz Navarro, Silvia ^c   Issa Khozouz, Ziad ^a   Reina Toral, Antonio ^b   Díaz Castellanos, Miguel Ángel ^a   Rodríguez García, Juan José ^d   Torres Ruiz, Juan Miguel ^e   Cárdenas Cruz, Antonio ^a   Camacho Víctor, Ángel ^b  

^a HOSPITAL DE PONIENTE   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LAS NIEVES   (Spain)

^c Critical Care/Emergency Department   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL REGIONAL UNIVERSITARIO DE MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SAN CECILIO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Cardiac arrest; Mortality; Thrombolysis; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY CARE UNIT; DATA BASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SPAIN; THROMBOSIS;

AGED; APACHE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPAIN; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 18844474436     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000079602.14851.EB     Document Type: Article

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