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Ketorolac and morphine for analgesia in acute renal colic: Is this combination more effective than monotherapy?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2015

Jaspinder Ghuman*
Affiliation:
Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ont.
Rajiv Vadera
Affiliation:
Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.
*
Department of Emergency Medicine, Hamilton Health Sciences, 237 Barton St. E., Hamilton ON L8L 2X2; jghuman999@hotmail.com

Abstract

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Type
Knowledge Applied to Practice Application des connaissance à la pratique
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2008

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