Effectiveness of Prehospital Wireless Transmission of Electrocardiograms to a Cardiologist Via Hand-Held Device for Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction (from the Timely Intervention in Myocardial Emergency, NorthEast Experience [TIME-NE])

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 98, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1160-1164

  Adams, George L ^a   Campbell, Paul T ^b   Adams, John M ^c   Strauss, David G ^a   Wall, Karen ^b   Patterson, Janet ^b   Shuping, Kathy B ^a   Maynard, Charles ^e   Young, Dwayne ^d   Corey, Craig ^b   Thompson, Alan ^b   Lee, Benjamin A ^a   Wagner, Galen S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Carolinas Medical Center NorthEast   (United States)

^c EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Guilford County Emergency Medical Services   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGIST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT FAILURE; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; CORONARY STENOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION; NORTH CAROLINA; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750084727     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2006.05.042     Document Type: Article

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