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This case very clearly shows that a good diagnosis should always also take into account the symptoms and the general condition of the patient before looking at the monitoring. This is indeed an important accompanying diagnostic parameter, but not the only one.
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Dünser, M. (2023). Blood Pressure Crisis. In: Wenzel, V. (eds) Case Studies in Emergency Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-67249-5_8
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