The Newcastle protocols 2008: An update on head-up tilt table testing and the management of vasovagal syncope and related disorders

Heart

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 416-420

  Parry, Steve W ^a,b   Reeve, P ^a   Lawson, J ^a   Shaw, F E ^a   Davison, J ^a   Norton, M ^a   Frearson, R ^a   Kerr, S ^a   Newton, J L ^a,b  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUDROCORTISONE; MIDODRINE; PAROXETINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

CAROTID SINUS SYNDROME; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FLUID INTAKE; HEAD TILTING; HUMAN; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NAUSEA; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNCOPE; TACHYCARDIA; TILT TABLE TEST; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VOMITING;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SYNCOPE, VASOVAGAL; TILT-TABLE TEST;

EID: 61949234961     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2007.136457     Document Type: Review

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