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Should emergency physicians be using a more extensive form of ultrasound to assess non-traumatic hypotensive patients?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2015

Gillian Kumka
Affiliation:
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, Thunder Bay, Ont.
Yevgeny Filanovsky*
Affiliation:
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, Thunder Bay, Ont.
*
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, 980 Oliver Rd., Thunder Bay ON P7B 6V4

Abstract

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Type
Education • Éducation
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2006

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