Syncope: What is the trigger?

Heart

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 123-124

  Hainsworth, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NALOXONE;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD FLOW; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DRUG MECHANISM; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; HYPOTENSION; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STANDING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYMPTOM; SYNCOPE; TACHYCARDIA; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0037303902     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heart.89.2.123     Document Type: Short Survey

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