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Acute Heart Failure Patients Without COPD Often Given Bronchodilator Therapy
Link ID 3267
Title Acute Heart Failure Patients Without COPD Often Given Bronchodilator Therapy
Url http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/570213?src=rss
Description Many patients seen in the emergency department with acutely decompensated heart failure receive bronchodilator therapy for dyspnea even though they have no history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a report in the January issue of the Annals of Emergency Medicine. Reuters Health Information
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Date Feb 15, 2008
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