Hypertensive urgencies: Treating the mercury?

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 530-531

  Gallagher, E John ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NOTE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPHYGMOMANOMETER;

EID: 0037379683     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mem.2003.106     Document Type: Note

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