Managing knowledge for the emergency care of heart attack patients: Paramedics and thrombolytic treatment

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 7 VOLS, Issue , 2005, Pages 6965-6968

  Quinn, T ^a,b   Bali, R K ^a   Shears, K ^c  

^a Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

^b West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust   (United Kingdom)

^c Wiltshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emergency cardiac care; Knowledge management; Myocardial infarction; Paramedic; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; HEALTH CARE; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PATIENT TREATMENT;

EMERGENCY CARDIAC CARE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT (KM); MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION (MI); PARAMEDIC; THROMBOLYSIS;

CARDIOLOGY;

EID: 33846898304     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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