TY - JOUR T1 - COmmon medical emergencies. Y1 - 1969/05/01 N1 - 10.1001/archinte.1969.00300150128039 JO - Archives of Internal Medicine SP - 610 EP - 610 VL - 123 IS - 5 N2 - This is an abbreviated British rendition of acute medical emergency management. It offers a few less familiar concepts: heroin as an alternative therapy to morphine in relief of myocardial infarction; hypertensive encephalopathy is managed by intravenous administration of hexamethonium followed by pentolinium; guanethidine, trimethaphan (Arfond) camsylate, and methyldopa are mentioned later; diazoxide does not place. It is tidy and handy but has no particular distinction over others in the field. SN - 0003-9926 M3 - doi: 10.1001/archinte.1969.00300150128039 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1969.00300150128039 ER -