Correlation of paramedic administration of furosemide with emergency physician diagnosis of congestive heart failure

Journal of Emergency Primary Health Care

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Dobson, Thomas ^a,b   Jensen, Jan L ^a,b   Karim, Saleema ^a   Travers, Andrew H ^a,b  

^a Emergency Health Services Nova Scotia   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Emergency medical technicians; Furosemide; Heart failure; Prehospital emergency care

Indexed keywords

FUROSEMIDE;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PNEUMONIA;

EID: 73249114682     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14474999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.33151/ajp.7.3.176     Document Type: Article

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