Approach to Adult Patients with Acute Dyspnea

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 129-149

  DeVos, Elizabeth ^a   Jacobson, Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Angina; Asthma; COPD; Dyspnea; Pneumonia; Pulmonary embolism; Respiratory compensation; Shortness of breath

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ALLERGIC REACTION; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASTHMA; AUSCULTATION; BIPHASIC POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE; BREATHING RATE; BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; COUGHING; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSPNEA; ECHOGRAPHY; EMPHYSEMA; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENTAL FINDING; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG EMBOLISM; NEBULIZATION; OXYGEN SATURATION; PANIC; PERIORBITAL EDEMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SMOKING; STRIDOR; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; WHEEZING; WOUND CARE; ADULT; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; PNEUMONIA; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

ADULT; ASTHMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; PNEUMONIA; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84952641884     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: 07338627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2015.08.008     Document Type: Review

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