Emergency Ultrasonography and Error Reduction

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 53-55

  Blackstock, Uché ^a   Stone, Michael B ^a  

^a Downstate Health Sciences University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PARACENTESIS; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOCENTESIS;

EID: 67349287877     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.02.015     Document Type: Note

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