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Patient assessment: do you use your ABCDE?

The pros of the ABCDE approach are accepted, yet ‘doing the obs’ remains common practice
Posted 25 February 2020 - 00:01
Illustration showing the five elements of the ABCDE approach to assessing deteriorating patients
 
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