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Testing in syncope

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  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, West CC2, One Deaconess Road, 02115, Boston, MA, USA

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Grossman, S.A. Testing in syncope. Int Emergency Med 1, 135–136 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02936540

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