Impact of pre-hospital emergency in the management and prognosis of acute myocardial infarction;Impacto da emergência pré-hospitalar no tratamento e prognóstico do enfarte agudo do miocárdio

Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 863-872

  Bettencourt, Nuno ^a,b   Mateus, Pedro ^a   Dias, Carla ^a   Mateus, Carlos ^a   Santos, Lino ^a   Adão, Luís ^a   Sampaio, Francisco ^a   Salomé, Nlino ^a   Gonçalves, Carlos ^a   Simões, Lino ^a   Ribeiro, Vasco Gama ^a  

^a CENTRO HOSPITALAR DE VILA NOVA DE GAIA ESPINHO   (Portugal)

^b NONE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Pre hospital emergency

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FIRST AID; FOLLOW UP; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMIA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 23244457569     PISSN: 08702551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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