Importance of coronary artery disease in sudden cardiac death

Journal of the American Heart Association

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Low, Li Shien ^a   Kern, Karl B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Coronary artery disease; Editorials; Sudden death

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMATOSE PATIENT; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH; SURVIVAL RATE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; FEMALE; MALE; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA;

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA;

EID: 84939460378     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20479980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.114.001339     Document Type: Editorial

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