Point-of-Care Ultrasound to Evaluate a Teenager with Presyncope.

West J Emerg Med

Rady Children's Hospital, Division of Emergency Medicine, San Diego, California University of California at San Diego, Department of Emergency Medicine, San Diego, California.

Published: March 2016

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