• Emerg. Med. Clin. North Am. · May 2003

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    Environmental insults: smoke inhalation, submersion, diving, and high altitude.

    • Dick C Kuo and David A Jerrard.
    • Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine. 419 West Redwood Street, Suite 280, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. dkuo@umaryland.edu
    • Emerg. Med. Clin. North Am. 2003 May 1; 21 (2): 475-97, x.

    AbstractIn the expanding search for recreation, we spend more and more of our time in various environments. Whether the air is thin or compressed or smoke-filled or there is no air at all, emergency physicians continue to meet and treat the various pulmonary emergencies that the environment may create. The authors present the background, diagnosis, and management of a few of the more common pulmonary emergencies that the environment may produce.

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