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The clinical relevance of the duration of loss of consciousness provoked by tilt testing

Dorota ZyśkoTeaching Department for Emergency Medical Service, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland.Correspondence[email protected]
, MD, PhD,
Jacek GajekDepartment of Cardiology, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland.
, MD, PhD,
Edward KozlukFirst Department of Cardiology, Warsaw Medical University, Poland.
, MD, PhD,
Anil Kumar AgrawalDepartment of Surgery, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland.
, MD, PhD,
Jacek SmerekaTeaching Department for Emergency Medical Service, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland.
, MD, PhD &
Igor ChęcińskiTeaching Department for Emergency Medical Service, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland.
, MD, PhD
Pages 203-209 | Received 30 Jul 2009, Published online: 23 May 2017

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