Clinical policy: Critical issues in the evaluation and management of adult patients with suspected acute nontraumatic thoracic aortic dissection from the american college of emergency physicians clinical policies subcommittee (writing committee) on thoracic aortic dissection

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 32-42.e12

  Diercks, Deborah B ^a   Promes, Susan B ^a   Schuur, Jeremiah D ^a   Shah, Kaushal ^a   Valente, Jonathan H ^a   Cantrill, Stephen V ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

D DIMER; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FIBRIN DEGRADATION PRODUCT; FIBRIN FRAGMENT D;

ACUTE NONTRAUMATIC THORACIC AORTIC DISSECTION; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTIC DISSECTION DETECTION RISK SCORE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMERGENCY CARE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LOW RISK PATIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MORBIDITY; PAIN; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BLOOD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84918789097     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2014.11.002     Document Type: Review

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