Just Say No: Gastric Aspiration and Lavage Rarely Provide Benefit

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 365-366

  Pitera, Abbe ^a   Sarko, John ^a  

^a MARICOPA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMERGENCY WARD; EPISTAXIS; GASTRIC SUCTION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTESTINE PERFORATION; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH LAVAGE;

EID: 77949657731     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.10.016     Document Type: Note

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