Telemetry monitoring during transport of low-risk chest pain patients from the emergency department: Is it necessary?

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 965-969

  Singer, Adam J ^a   Visram, Farid ^a   Shembekar, Amit ^a   Khwaja, Mustafah ^a   Viccellio, Asa ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest pain; Emergency medicine; Low risk; Nursing shortage; Telemetry; Transport

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN I;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEATH; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SYNCOPE; TELEMETRY; THORAX PAIN;

EID: 25144504734     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2005.06.007     Document Type: Article

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