Determination of troponin in the intensive care unit patient: Please avoid "troponinitis"!

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1439-1441

  Geppert, Alexander ^a  

^a Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ACTIVATED PROTEIN C; CLOPIDOGREL; DOBUTAMINE; HEPARIN; LEVOSIMENDAN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; TICLOPIDINE; TROPONIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; OXYGEN SUPPLY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEPSIS; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TROPONIN;

EID: 20444463516     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000166716.43414.10     Document Type: Editorial

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