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Education and Practice

Prehospital Nitroglycerin in Tachycardic Chest Pain Patients: A Risk for Hypotension or Not?

, PCP, MSc, , PhD, , MD, , AEMT-CC, PhD, , MA & , MD, FRCP, CSPQ, FACEP

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