Using a medical emergency team to manage anaphylactic shock.

Brendan Burns; Jeremy Beckett; Daryl Jones; Steve Webb

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Using a medical emergency team to manage anaphylactic shock.

June 4, 2008

Burns B, Beckett J, Jones D, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2008;34(6):360-3.

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This case report describes an Australian hospital's rapid response system and recounts how the medical emergency team quickly responded to a patient with anaphylactic shock.

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