One year‘s experience of mobile bedside chest ultrasound service for pleural diseases in a district general hospital

A. Al-Ameri, J. Droste, F. Guarasci, C. Smart, J. Azim (Steeton, United Kingdom)

Source: Annual Congress 2012 - Standard of care, incidential findings, image acquisition
Session: Standard of care, incidential findings, image acquisition
Session type: Thematic Poster Session
Number: 646
Disease area: Respiratory critical care

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