Women attending an accident and emergency department after assaults.
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Sport-related ankle injuries attending an accident and emergency department.
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متن کاملPain in young children attending the accident and emergency department.
OBJECTIVES To assess pain in young children presenting to an accident and emergency (A&E) department. To evaluate the use of the toddler-preschooler postoperative pain scale (TPPPS) and the use of analgesia in these children. METHODS 100 children aged 1-5 years presenting to an A&E department were assessed for pain. Pain assessments were carried out using a modified form of the TPPPS; a visua...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 1995
ISSN: 1472-0205,1472-0213
DOI: 10.1136/emj.12.1.15