An experience of emergency ultrasonography in children in a sub-Saharan setting

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 335-340

  Ahmad, Shaf ^a,b   Kampondeni, S ^a   Molyneux, E ^a,b  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Malawi)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; MORPHINE;

BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN ABSCESS; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CHILD; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CYANOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; FALLOT TETRALOGY; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMATOTHORAX; HEMOPERICARDIUM; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LUNG EDEMA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALAWI; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; STRIDOR; SUBDURAL EMPYEMA; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; BREATHING DISORDER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; METHODOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILD; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RESPIRATION DISORDERS;

EID: 33744993635     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2005.028761     Document Type: Review

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