Establishing a successful coronary CT angiography program in the emergency department: Official writing of the Fellow and Resident Leaders of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (FiRST)

Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 150-156

  Maroules, Christopher D ^a   Blaha, Michael J ^b   El Haddad, Mohamed A ^c   Ferencik, Maros ^d   Cury, Ricardo C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e BAPTIST HOSPITAL OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute chest pain triage; Coronary CT angiography

Indexed keywords

ACUTE AORTIC SYNDROME; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MONITORING; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRATEGIC PLANNING; THORAX PAIN;

ACUTE CHEST PAIN TRIAGE; CORONARY CT ANGIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84880170180     PISSN: 19345925     EISSN: 1876861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2013.05.001     Document Type: Article

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