Cardiac monitoring of high-risk patients after an electrical injury: A prospective multicentre study

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 348-352

  Bailey, Benoit ^a,b   Gaudreault, Pierre ^a,b   Thivierge, Robert L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECG ABNORMALITY; ELECTRIC INJURY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC SHOCK; EMERGENCY WARD; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFANT; LETHALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TETANY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARRHYTHMIA; CHEST PAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CREATINE KINASE; ELECTRIC INJURIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUEBEC; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34248152748     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2006.044677     Document Type: Article

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