Estimation of the severity of breathlessness in the emergency department: a dyspnea score.

Tibor GondosViktor SzabóÁgnes SárkányAdrienn SárkányGábor Halász

Published in: BMC emergency medicine (2017)

A new DSS was validated which score is suitable to compare the severity of dyspnea among different patients and different illnesses. The simplified version of the score (its value ≥7 points without correction factors) can be useful at the triage or in pre-hospital care.

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