Compromising bradycardia: Management in the emergency department

Resuscitation

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 96-102

  Sodeck, G H ^a   Domanovits, H ^a   Meron, G ^a   Rauscha, F ^b   Losert, H ^a   Thalmann, M ^b   Vlcek, M ^a   Laggner, A N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bradycardia; Cardiac pacing; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BED REST; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; COLLAPSE; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART AUTOMATICITY; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PACEMAKER FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; SYNCOPE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

AGED; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARRHYTHMIA; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BED REST; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYNCOPE; WATER-ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCE;

EID: 33847409414     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2006.08.006     Document Type: Article

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