Therapy and outcomes in massive pulmonary embolism from the Emergency Medicine Pulmonary Embolism in the Real World Registry

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1774-1781

  Lin, Brian W ^a   Schreiber, Donald H ^b   Liu, Gigi ^c   Briese, Beau ^b   Hiestand, Brian ^d   Slattery, David ^e   Kline, Jeffrey A ^f   Goldhaber, Samuel Z ^g   Pollack, Charles V ^h  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^h PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; EMBOLECTOMY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASSIVE PULMONARY EMBOLISM; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84869179959     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: 15328171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2012.02.012     Document Type: Article

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