Characteristics and outcomes of patients receiving a medical emergency team review for acute change in conscious state or arrhythmias

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 477-481

  Downey, Andrew W ^a   Quach, Jon L ^a   Haase, Michael ^a   Haase Fielitz, Anja ^a   Jones, Daryl ^a   Bellomo, Rinaldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Conscious state; Critical illness; Delay; Medical emergency team; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONSCIOUSNESS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 38549159421     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000300277.41113.46     Document Type: Article

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