Emergency Department and office-based evaluation of patients with chest pain

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 284-299

  Kontos, Michael C ^a   Diercks, Deborah B ^b   Kirk, J Douglas ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; TROPONIN; TROPONIN I;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AMBULATORY CARE; ANAMNESIS; AORTA ANEURYSM; CARDIAC MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG EMBOLISM; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERICARDITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; T WAVE INVERSION; THORAX PAIN; TREADMILL EXERCISE; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 77649228308     PISSN: 00256196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4065/mcp.2009.0560     Document Type: Conference Paper

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