Cardiovascular Emergencies in the Elderly

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 339-370

  Gupta, Rohit ^a   Kaufman, Seth ^b  

^a ADVOCATE CHRIST MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABCIXIMAB; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMIODARONE; AMRINONE; ATENOLOL; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CAPTOPRIL; CLOPIDOGREL; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; DOBUTAMINE; ENALAPRIL; ENOXAPARIN; EPTIFIBATIDE; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; INOTROPIC AGENT; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; MILRINONE; MORPHINE SULFATE; NESIRITIDE; NITRATE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITOR; PROCAINAMIDE; SILDENAFIL; TIROFIBAN; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANAMNESIS; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANTICOAGULATION; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTOGRAPHY; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BLEEDING; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BREATHING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CARDIOVERSION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; DEFIBRILLATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FIBRINOLYSIS; HEART ARREST; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HEART WORK; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG EDEMA; OXYGEN THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 33645882529     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: 07338627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2006.01.003     Document Type: Review

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