The inadvertent administration of anticoagulants to ED patients ultimately diagnosed with thoracic aortic dissection

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 439-442

  Davis, Daniel P ^a   Grossman, Karun ^b   Kiggins, Danielle C ^a   Vilke, Gary M ^a   Chan, Theodore C ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ANTICOAGULATION; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BLEEDING; CARDIOTOXICITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG FATALITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; REVERSAL REACTION; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STROKE; SYMPTOM; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANTICOAGULANTS; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BACK PAIN; CALIFORNIA; CHEST PAIN; COHORT STUDIES; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MEDICATION ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 22444433977     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2004.10.010     Document Type: Article

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