Cardiac CT in the emergency department: Convincing evidence, but cautious implementation

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 331-341

  Cury, Ricardo C ^a   Feuchtner, Gudrun ^a,b   Mascioli, Carol ^a   Fialkow, Jonathon ^a   Andrulonis, Paul ^a   Villanueva, Tomas ^a   Pena, Constantino S ^a   Janowitz, Warren R ^a   Katzen, Barry T ^a   Ziffer, Jack A ^a  

^a BAPTIST HOSPITAL OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acute chest pain; Coronary CTA; Emergency department; Non invasive cardiac imaging; Nuclear cardiology

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; CARDIAC IMAGING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THORAX PAIN;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79958207529     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: 15326551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-011-9356-1     Document Type: Review

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