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Sublingual glyceryl trinitrate as prehospital treatment for hypertension in Irukandji syndrome

Mark Little, Peter L Pereira, Richard Mulcahy, Teresa Carrette and Jamie Seymour
Med J Aust 2004; 180 (9): . || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2004.tb06033.x
Published online: 3 May 2004

Mark Little,* Peter L Pereira, Richard Mulcahy, Teresa Carrette,§ Jamie Seymour


  • 1 Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, WA 6009.
  • 3 Cairns Base Hospital, Cairns, QLD.
  • 5 Department of Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD.



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