The electrocardiographic changes in acute brain injury patients

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 125, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 3430-3433

  Fan, Xin ^a   Du, Feng he ^a   Tian, Jun ping ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acute brain injury; Electrocardiographic abnormalities; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QT DISPERSION; QT INTERVAL; QT PROLONGATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84867421103     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0366-6999.2012.19.013     Document Type: Article

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