Case 28-2013: A 52-year-old man with cardiac arrest after an acute myocardial infarction

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 369, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1047-1054

  Brown, David F M ^a,b   Jaffer, Farouc A ^a,b   Baker, Joshua N ^a,b   Edip Gurol, M ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMIODARONE; ATORVASTATIN; CLOPIDOGREL; DIURETIC AGENT; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; LIDOCAINE; METOPROLOL; OXYGEN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BARE METAL STENT; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAPHORESIS; DIZZINESS; DRUG ELUTING STENT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HEART ARREST; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NOTE; PALLOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SEIZURE; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STENT THROMBOSIS; T WAVE INVERSION; THORAX PAIN; THROMBECTOMY; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; HEART INFARCTION; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY OCCLUSION; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 84883692903     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1304164     Document Type: Article

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