You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Images in emergency medicine
Aortic dissection may be suspected from the pulse oximetry plethysmographic curve
  1. J L Auffray,
  2. P Asseman,
  3. P V Ennezat
  1. Intensive Care Unit, Hôpital Cardiologique, Centre Hospitalier Régional et Universitaire, Lille, France
  1. Correspondence to Dr P V Ennezat, Intensive Care Unit, Cardiology Hospital, Bd Pr J Leclercq, 59037 Lille Cedex, France; ennezat{at}yahoo.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/emj.2008.063503

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    Type A acute aortic dissection (AAD) requires prompt diagnosis to initiate life-saving treatment. However, the diagnosis of AAD is clinically challenging in the emergency room or prehospital setting. Pulse oximetry using a finger probe is routinely used to assess …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes