Do medications affect vital signs in the prehospital treatment of acute decompensated heart failure?

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-45

  Sporer, Karl A ^a,b,e   Tabas, Jeff A ^a,b   Tam, Roland K ^d   Sellers, Karen L ^a,b   Rosenson, Jon ^a   Barton, Chris W ^a,b   Pletcher, Mark J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics ^*  (United States)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Emergency Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute decompensated heart failure; Acute pulmonary edema; Congestive heart failure; Drugs; Nitroglycerin; Vital signs

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; FUROSEMIDE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; MORPHINE SULFATE; SALBUTAMOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BREATHING RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOXIA; INTUBATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL SERVICE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PULSE OXIMETRY; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; URBAN AREA; VITAL SIGN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; AGED; ALBUTEROL; ANALGESICS; ASPIRIN; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALIFORNIA; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; DIURETICS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; FUROSEMIDE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MORPHINE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NITROGLYCERIN; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RESPIRATION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 31544453599     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903120500366938     Document Type: Article

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