The Elder Patient with Suspected Acute Coronary Syndromes in the Emergency Department

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 732-739

  Han, Jin H ^a   Lindsell, Christopher J ^a   Hornung, Richard W ^a   Lewis, Timothy ^a   Storrow, Alan B ^a   Hoekstra, James W ^a   Hollander, Judd E ^a   Miller, Chadwick D ^a   Peacock, W Frank ^a   Pollack, Charles V ^a   Gibler, W Brian ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

acute coronary syndromes; aged; diagnosis; elders; outcomes; over 75

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CREATINE KINASE; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX PAIN; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ODDS RATIO; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 34447529060     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2007.04.008     Document Type: Article

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