Experience of prehospital emergency care among general practitioners in Ireland

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 450-454

  Bury, Gerard ^a   Prunty, H ^a   Egan, M ^a   Sharpe, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; MORPHINE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRADYCARDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; DEFIBRILLATION; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INDIVIDUALIZATION; INJURY; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; IRELAND; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESUSCITATION; SEX RATIO; SKILL RETENTION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT PLANNING; WORK EXPERIENCE;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRELAND; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE;

EID: 47349086628     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2007.052910     Document Type: Article

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