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Rural physicians’ scope of practice on remote islands: A case report of severe pneumonia that required overnight artificial airway management
Objective: To clarify the scope of practice on rural islands of Okinawa. Patient: A 59-year-old man presented to our clinic with shortness of breath. He was intubated due to acute respiratory failure caused by severe pneumonia. We could not transfer him owing to bad weather, and had to continue pati...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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The Japanese Association of Rural Medicine
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5458354/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28593019 http://dx.doi.org/10.2185/jrm.2925 |