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Collapse While Doing Barn Work

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What is common in the hospital is often—if you hear hoofbeats, you should look for horses, not zebras—this often facilitates the diagnosis, say American colleagues. But: There is always an exception to this. You can assume a statistical number, but you must not forget that there is always a “plus-minus” or simply a zebra.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Kepler University Hospital, Linz, Austria

    Martin Dünser

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  1. Klinik für Anästhesie, Medizin Campus Bodensee, Friedrichshafen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

    Volker Wenzel

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Dünser, M. (2023). Collapse While Doing Barn Work. In: Wenzel, V. (eds) Case Studies in Emergency Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-67249-5_12

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