The need for uniform definitions in the regionalized care of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 759-761

  Kaji, Amy H ^a,b,c   Koenig, William ^d   Eckstein, Marc ^e,f   Youngquist, Scott ^g   Tadeo, Richard ^d   Niemann, James T ^a,b,c  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LOS ANGELES BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Agency   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Los Angeles Fire Department   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLOON CATHETER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; EMERGENCY CARE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; NOTE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION HEART INFARCTION; STANDARDIZATION;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 56849134241     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00171.x     Document Type: Note

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