The Leiden out-of-hospital cardiac arrest evaluation study (LOHCAT): A useful protocol: A critical process

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 58-59

  Singh, Dalip ^a   Biblo, Lee A ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ERGOMETRINE; FLECAINIDE; ISOPRENALINE; SOTALOL; THALLIUM;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CARDIOVERSION; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEATH; DEFIBRILLATOR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; EXERCISE TEST; HEART ARREST; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NETHERLANDS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SUDDEN DEATH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

ARRHYTHMIA; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING;

EID: 2442612592     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2004.02.012     Document Type: Editorial

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