A systematic review of patients', parents' and healthcare professionals' adrenaline auto-injector administration techniques
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A systematic review of patients', parents' and healthcare professionals' adrenaline auto-injector administration techniques.
INTRODUCTION In order to enable fast treatment response to anaphylactic reactions, adrenaline auto-injectors (AAI) have been developed and manufactured. It has been reported in several studies that administration technique is suboptimal. The primary purpose of this study was to review the nature and extent of the deficiencies in administration technique among patients, parents/caregivers and he...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1472-0205,1472-0213
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2016-205742