Hospital doctors' knowledge of adrenaline (epinephrine) administration in anaphylaxis in adults is deficient

Resuscitation

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1057-1058

  Droste, Jan ^a   Narayan, Nithin ^a  

^a Airedale NHS Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANAPHYLAXIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DRUG USE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL PHYSICIAN; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; KNOWLEDGE; LETTER; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICAL STAFF; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SYRINGE; UNITED KINGDOM; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DOSE RESPONSE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; STANDARDS;

ADRENERGIC AGONISTS; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EPINEPHRINE; HOSPITALISTS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 77954763360     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.04.020     Document Type: Letter

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