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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  and
Yevgeny Filanovsky
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

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Type
Education • Éducation
Information
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , January 2006 , pp. 47 - 49
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2006

References

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