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Prehospital Thrombolysis: A Manual from Berlin
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Blood pressure lowering in acute ischaemic stroke thrombolysis
Else Charlotte Sandset1, Urs Fischer2
1Department of Neurology, Oslo University Hospital, 0424 Oslo, Norway; Department of Research and Development, The Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation, Oslo, Norway.
Lancet (London, England)
|February 12, 2019
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