Reliability of electrocardiogram interpretation in critically ill patients

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1338-1343

  Lim, Wendy ^a   Qushmaq, Ismael ^b   Cook, Deborah J ^a   Devereaux, P J ^a   Heels Ansdell, Diane ^a   Crowther, Mark A ^a,c   Tkaczyk, Andrea ^a   Meade, Maureen O ^a   Cook, Richard J ^d  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Critical illness; Electrocardiography; Myocardial ischemia; Reproducibility of results; Troponin

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN; TROPONIN T;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; T WAVE; BLOOD; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; MIDDLE AGED; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TROPONIN T;

EID: 33646593785     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000214679.23957.90     Document Type: Article

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