Correct recognition and management of anaphylaxis: Not much change over a decade

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 91, Issue 1071, 2015, Pages 3-7

  Plumb, Benjamin ^a   Bright, Philip ^a   Gompels, Mark M ^a   Unsworth, David Joe ^a  

^a SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALLERGIC DISEASE; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHEILITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DYSPHASIA; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN; PRURITUS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RASH; SIMULATION; TONGUE SWELLING; URTICARIA; WHEEZING; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANAPHYLAXIS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENGLAND; EPINEPHRINE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; PHYSICIANS; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 84921298599     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: 14690756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2013-132181     Document Type: Article

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