Emergency department protocolised management of acute atrial fibrillation: How many patients in a Tertiary Hospital are eligible?

Irish Medical Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Deasy, Conor ^a   Wakai, Abel ^b   McMahon, Geraldine ^b  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CHOLECYSTITIS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE DURATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENTAL DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; SYMPTOM; SYNCOPE; THYROID CRISIS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 37849188295     PISSN: 03323102     EISSN: 03323102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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