‘This does not mean, however, that pre-hospital clinicians should not be aware of the differences and the risk of this type of failure when treating an AECOPD’.
‘Respiratory disease is the most common illness responsible for an emergency admission to hospital’ The British Lung Foundation (BLF), (BLF, 2007).
Further assessment found that the patient had bilateral inspiratory and expiratory wheezes and crepitations on auscultation of his anterior and posterior chest, saturation of peripheral oxygen (SpO2)...
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