Can we do more for patients with acute heart failure before arrival at the hospital?;¿Podemos hacer más por los pacientes con insuficiencia cardiaca aguda en la fase prehospitalaria?

Emergencias

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 221-222

  Harjola, Pia ^a   Harjola, Veli Pekka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; EDITORIAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL;

HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS;

EID: 85025064268     PISSN: 11376821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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