Emergency department ultrasound (EDU): Clinical adjunct or plaything?

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 333-335

  McLaughlin, R ^a   Collum, N ^a   McGovern, S ^a   Martyn, C ^a   Bowra, J ^a  

^a ULSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ACCREDITATION; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSULTATION; DRAIN; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; IRELAND; JOINT EFFUSION; LEARNING; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TELECOMMUNICATION; TRAINING;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FINGERS; FOREIGN BODIES; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; MALE; NORTHERN IRELAND; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 18744367594     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2004.014241     Document Type: Article

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