Gender-specific ambulance priority and delays to primary percutaneous coronary intervention: A consequence of the patients' presentation or the management at the emergency medical communications center?

American Heart Journal

Volumn 166, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 839-845

  Melberg, Tor ^a   Kindervaag, Bjørg ^a   Rosland, Jan ^a  

^a STAVANGER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; NITRATE; STATIN (PROTEIN);

ADULT; AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH SERVICE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; THERAPY DELAY; THORAX PAIN;

AGED; AMBULANCES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NORWAY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84886953159     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2013.07.034     Document Type: Article

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