Severe hypertension: Emergency or not?

Consultant

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 649-650

  Vidt, Donald G ^a,b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; ECLAMPSIA; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS; LUNG EDEMA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 34347252669     PISSN: 00107069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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