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Treating a Patient with Your Hands Tied: Acute Chest Syndrome in a Jehovah’s Witness
Acute chest syndrome (ACS), a vaso-occlusive crisis in patients with sickle cell anemia, is a life-threatening condition and a leading cause of death in these patients. It is treated with analgesics, antibiotics, intravenous fluid, supplemental oxygen (or ventilatory support in severe cases) with si...
Autores principales: | Vadehra, Deepak, Davino, Tammy, Datta, Debapriya |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Cureus
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7243639/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32461845 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7769 |
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