The additional use of end-tidal alveolar dead space fraction following D-dimer test to improve diagnostic accuracy for pulmonary embolism in the emergency department

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 663-667

  Yoon, Young Hoon ^a   Lee, Sung Woo ^a   Jung, Dong Min ^a   Moon, Sung Woo ^a   Horn, Jan Kurt ^b   Hong, Yun Sik ^b  

^a Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

D DIMER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EMERGENCY WARD; END TIDAL ALVEOLAR DEAD SPACE FRACTION; END TIDAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG DEAD SPACE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAPNOGRAPHY; CARBON DIOXIDE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; KOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY DEAD SPACE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RESPIRATORY RATE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77956195306     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2008.071118     Document Type: Article

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