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Approach to Adult Patients with Acute Dyspnea

Undifferentiated patients in respiratory distress require immediate attention in the emergency department. Using a thorough history and clinical examination, clinicians can determine the most likely causes of dyspnea. Understanding the pathophysiology of the most common diseases contributing to dysp...

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Autores principales: DeVos, Elizabeth, Jacobson, Lisa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7126145/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26614245
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.emc.2015.08.008
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spelling pubmed-71261452020-04-08 Approach to Adult Patients with Acute Dyspnea DeVos, Elizabeth Jacobson, Lisa Emerg Med Clin North Am Article Undifferentiated patients in respiratory distress require immediate attention in the emergency department. Using a thorough history and clinical examination, clinicians can determine the most likely causes of dyspnea. Understanding the pathophysiology of the most common diseases contributing to dyspnea guides rational testing and informed, expedited treatment decisions. Elsevier Inc. 2016-02 2015-11-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7126145/ /pubmed/26614245 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.emc.2015.08.008 Text en Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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