Early cardiac pacemaker placement for life-threatening bradycardia in traumatic spinal cord injury

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1485-1488

  Moerman, Jacob R ^a   Benjamin Christie III, D ^a   Sykes, Leon N ^a   Vogel, Robert L ^a   Nolan, Tracy L ^a   Ashley, Dennis W ^a  

^a MERCER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic instability; Bradycardia; Cardiac pacemaker; Cervical spinal cord injury; Hypotension

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ASYSTOLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CAUSE OF DEATH; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY INTERVENTION; HEART ARREST; HEART PACING; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LUNG COMPLICATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TEMPORARY TRANSVENOUS PACEMAKER;

ADULT; BRADYCARDIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79958777184     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3182185509     Document Type: Article

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