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Dyspnoea in Older People in the Emergency Department

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Breathlessness is one of the most common complaints and is the main cause for the admission of older patients presenting to the ED. Dyspnoea is a potentially serious syndrome and can represent life-threatening emergencies [1]. In fact, dyspnoea is one of the highest mortality of all non-trauma complaints [2].

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  1. Emergency Department, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, C/ Profesor Martín-Lagos s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    F. Javier Martín-Sánchez MD, PhD & Juan González del Castillo MD, PhD

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  1. Emergency Department, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    Christian Nickel

  2. Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Abdelouahab Bellou

  3. Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

    Simon Conroy

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Martín-Sánchez, F.J., del Castillo, J.G. (2018). Dyspnoea in Older People in the Emergency Department. In: Nickel, C., Bellou, A., Conroy, S. (eds) Geriatric Emergency Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19318-2_18

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