Carotid sinus massage - How safe is it? [1]

Age and Ageing

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 518-520

  Walsh, Thomas ^a   Clinch, David ^a   Costelloe, Aine ^a   Moore, Alan ^a   Sheehy, Tina ^a   Watts, Michael ^a   Bryant, Catherine A ^b   Close, Jacqueline ^b   Gonzalez, Juan ^b,c   Ouldred, Emma ^b   Pathansali, Rohan ^b   Swift, Cameron G ^b   Lyons, Declan ^a   Jackson, Stephen H D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b Clinical Age Research Unit   (United Kingdom)

^c KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; DIGOXIN; IMIPRAMINE; ISOSORBIDE MONONITRATE; PERINDOPRIL; PROCHLORPERAZINE;

APHASIA; CAROTID SINUS MASSAGE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; DISORIENTATION; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; FACIAL NERVE DISEASE; FALLING; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; LETTER; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SYNCOPE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID SINUS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MASSAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SYNCOPE;

EID: 33748056115     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afl057     Document Type: Letter

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