Syncope: Overview and Approach to Management

Syncope: Mechanisms and Management: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-46

  Olshansky, Brian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood loss; Cardiovascular disease; Disease management; Orthostatic hypotension; Syncope

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889342862     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470994801.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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