Should a moratorium be placed on sublingual nifedipine capsules given for hypertensive emergencies and pseudoemergencies?

JAMA

Volumn 276, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 1328-1331

  Grossman, Ehud ^a   Messerli, Franz H ^b   Grodzicki, Tomasz ^c   Kowey, Peter ^d  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^d LANKENAU HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAZOXIDE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; NICARDIPINE; NIFEDIPINE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DEATH; DRUG ABSORPTION; FEMALE; FETUS DISTRESS; HEART VENTRICLE CONDUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBLINGUAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0029859248     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.276.16.1328     Document Type: Article

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