Driving and Syncope

Syncope: Mechanisms and Management: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 322-342

  Olshansky, Brian ^a,b   Grubb, Blair P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Driving; Implantable cardioverter defibrillator; Motor vehicle accidents; Syncope

Indexed keywords

EID: 36448973536     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470994801.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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