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Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 341-350

  Woollard, Malcolm ^a   Greaves, I ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ADRENALIN; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; FUROSEMIDE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HYDROCORTISONE; IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE; MORPHINE; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; OXYGEN; PREDNISOLONE; SALBUTAMOL;

ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASTHMA; BREATHING RATE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LUNG EDEMA; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ASTHMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCIES; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; PNEUMONIA; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; PULMONARY EDEMA; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 2342472725     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2004.014878     Document Type: Article

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