Aortic Emergencies

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 789-800

  Wittels, Kathleen ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Aortic dissection; Thoracic aortic aneurysm

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; D DIMER; DILTIAZEM; ESMOLOL; LABETALOL; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; VERAPAMIL;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA FLOW; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG MECHANISM; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FENESTRATION; HEART SURGERY; HEMODYNAMICS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STENT; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 80055043842     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: 07338627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2011.09.015     Document Type: Review

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