Emergency Medicine Reports – July 27, 2003
July 27, 2003
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B-Type Natriuretic Peptide: Clinical Utility in the Emergency Department Setting
As experienced physicians understand, heart failure can be a difficult diagnosis to establish in the emergency department setting, especially when there are factors that may complicate a patients presentation. This issue of Emergency Medicine Reports reviews the role and clinical utility of brain natriuretic peptide in the management of patients suspected of having heart failure upon presentation to the ED