Clinician-Performed Bedside Ultrasound in Improving Diagnostic Accuracy in Patients Presenting to the ED with Acute Dyspnea.

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Published in West J Emerg Med on March 03, 2017

Authors

Dimitrios Papanagnou1, Michael Secko2, John Gullett3, Michael Stone4, Shahriar Zehtabchi2

Author Affiliations

1: Thomas Jefferson University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2: The State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brooklyn, New York.
3: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Emergency Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama.
4: Brigham and Women's Hospital of Harvard Medical School, Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.

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