Appropriate Cardiac Cath Lab activation: Optimizing electrocardiogram interpretation and clinical decision-making for acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction

American Heart Journal

Volumn 160, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Rokos, Ivan C ^a   French, William J ^b   Mattu, Amal ^c   Nichol, Graham ^d   Farkouh, Michael E ^e   Reiffel, James ^f   Stone, Gregg W ^f  

^a OLIVE VIEW UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^f Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM INTERPRETATION; EMERGENCY CARE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION LABORATORY ACTIVATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; POSTERIOR MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650083647     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2010.08.011     Document Type: Review

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