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Diagnosing acute aortic syndrome: a Canadian clinical practice guideline

Robert Ohle1, Justin W Yan2, Krishan Yadav2

  • 1The Department of Emergency Medicine, Health Science North Research Institute (Ohle, Middaugh, Ansell, Scott), Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Sudbury, Ont.; Patient representative (Callaway), Alexandria, Ont.; Division of Cardiac Surgery (Rubens), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont.; Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine (Yan), Western University, London, Ont.; Department of Emergency Medicine (Yadav), The Ottawa Hospital, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont.; Department of Emergency Medicine (Cournoyer), Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Que.; Department of Emergency Medicine (Savage), Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ont.; Department of Vascular Surgery (Jetty), The Ottawa Hospital, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont.; Division of Cardiac Surgery (Atoui), Health Sciences North, Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Sudbury, Ont.; Division of Cardiac Surgery (Atoui, Bittira), Health Sciences North, Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Sudbury, Ont.; Department of Radiology (Gupta), The Ottawa Hospital, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont.; Department of Radiology (Coffey), Trillium Hospital, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ont.; Division of Cardiac Anesthesiology (Wilson), Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ont.; Department of Emergency Medicine (Bignucolo), Espanola Regional Hospital, Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Espanola, Ont.; Department of Anaesthesia (McIsaac), Department of Critical Care, Health Science North, Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Sudbury, Ont.; Department of Emergency Medicine (Lang), Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary and Rockyview General Hospital (Lang), Calgary, Alta. rohle@nosm.ca.

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