Outcomes in Canadian Emergency Department syncope patients-are we doing a good job?

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 321-328

  Thiruganasambandamoorthy, Venkatesh ^a   Hess, Erik P ^b   Turko, Ekaterina ^a   Perry, Jeffrey J ^a   Wells, George A ^a   Stiell, Ian G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

adverse events; Emergency Department; outcomes; syncope

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBULANCE; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN TUMOR; CARDIOVERSION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHEST TUBE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FAINTNESS; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SECOND DEGREE ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; SEPSIS; SINUS NODE DISEASE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULANCES; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CANADA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT READMISSION; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; SYNCOPE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873140233     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2012.06.028     Document Type: Article

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