Retrospective description and analysis of consecutive catheterization laboratory st-segment elevation myocardial infarction activations with proposal, rationale, and use of a new classification scheme

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 62-69

  Mixon, Timothy A ^a   Suhr, Eunice ^b   Caldwell, Gerald ^c   Greenberg, Robert D ^b   Colato, Fernando ^a   Blackwell, Jeffry ^a   Jo, Chan Hee ^b   Dehmer, Gregory J ^a  

^a Division of Cardiology   (United States)

^b Department of Emergency Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Catheterization; Electrocardiography; Myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION LABORATORY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84860827063     PISSN: 19417713     EISSN: 19417705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.111.961672     Document Type: Article

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