Efficacy of Intravenous Tissue Plasminogen Activator in Frostbite Patients and Presentation of a Treatment Protocol for Frostbite Patients

Foot & Ankle Specialist

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 344-348

  Johnson, Adam R ^a   Jensen, Heather L ^a   Peltier, George ^a   Delacruz, Eugene ^a  

^a HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

amputation; cold injury; frostbite; tissue plasminogen activator

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ADULT; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; COLD INJURY; FINGER; FINGER INJURY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; PULSE RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; TOE; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AMPUTATION; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; FINGER INJURIES; FINGERS; FROSTBITE; HEPARIN; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MIDDLE AGED; PULSE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TOES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860231739     PISSN: 19386400     EISSN: 19387636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1938640011422596     Document Type: Article

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