Massive pulmonary embolism

Critical Care Nurse

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-50

  Shaughnessy, Kathleen ^a  

^a ABINGTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLECTOMY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LUNG EMBOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUERPERAL DISORDER; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANTS; CESAREAN SECTION; CRITICAL CARE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLECTOMY; FAMILY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT EDUCATION; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RESUSCITATION; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34047220178     PISSN: 02795442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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