Combination of lung ultrasound (a comet-tail sign) and N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide in differentiating acute heart failure from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma as cause of acute dyspnea in prehospital emergency setting

Critical Care

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Prosen, Gregor ^a,b   Klemen, Petra ^a,b,c   Strnad, Matej ^a,b   Grmec, Štefek ^a,b,c  

^a Center for Emergency Medicine   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BEDSIDE LUNG ULTRASOUND; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLOVENIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; ACUTE DISEASE; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASTHMA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79953901439     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc10140     Document Type: Article

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