High-risk percutaneous coronary intervention in the era of public reporting: Clinical and ethical considerations in the care of an elderly patient with critical left main disease and shock

Circulation

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 258-265

  Hawkins, Beau M ^a   Fitzgerald Mckeon, Lisa M ^c   Yeh, Robert W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Amo et Doceo Liberi Center   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiogenic; coronary stenosis; ethics; shock

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMIODARONE; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; DOPAMINE; HEPARIN; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CASE REPORT; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CORONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; COUGHING; COUNTERPULSATION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DRUG EFFECT; DYSPNEA; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEMIPLEGIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; INTRAAORTIC BALLOON PUMP; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL HISTORY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT PROLONGATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; RESUSCITATION; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SINUS RHYTHM; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SUBCLAVIAN ANGIOGRAPHY; SUDDEN DEATH; SURGICAL RISK; TACHYCARDIA; TELEMETRY; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

CORONARY STENOSIS; ETHICS; SHOCK, CARDIOGENIC;

AGED; CORONARY OCCLUSION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MANDATORY REPORTING; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS; SHOCK, CARDIOGENIC; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 84892645212     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.113.004604     Document Type: Article

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