Urgent invasive coronary strategy in patients with sudden cardiac arrest

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 287-291

  Noc, Marko ^a   Radsel, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Percutaneous coronary intervention; Urgent percutaneous coronary intervention

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BRAIN PERFUSION; COMATOSE PATIENT; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 43749114740     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: 15317072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCC.0b013e3282f85bb0     Document Type: Review

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