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Anticoagulants: quick reference for dosing, renal adjustment and reversal

…or dialysis DOACs are not recommended. Warfarin after individual assessment Rule of thumb for the monitoring interval: eGFR divided by 10 gives the number of…

Exercise stress test (exercise ECG): protocols, evaluation & termination

…carefully observed, follows after the exercise effort is terminated. Reliability as a function of workload In order for the exercise test to be reliable, the…

Drug-Eluting Coronary Stents: Evolution, Evidence and Stent Choice

…restenosis compared with balloon angioplasty but did not eliminate it. Angiographic restenosis—defined in the source material as follow up diameter stenosis greater than 50%…

Ankle-brachial index (ABI)

…in diabetes of 10 years' duration, or in diabetes with age 50 years. Risk assessment in known coronary or cerebrovascular disease. Follow up after vascular…

Vulnerable Plaque and Mechanisms of Acute Coronary Occlusion

…3.4 years of follow up in a prospective study of patients with acute coronary syndrome. Thus, an individual plaque’s morphology does not reliably…

Familial and Genetic Screening in Premature Cardiovascular Disease

…For example, heterozygous carriers in a clearly recessive cardiomyopathy may not require the same follow up as individuals at risk in an autosomal dominant family…

Lipid-Lowering Therapy: Statins as First-Line Treatment

…possible after admission rather than deferred until outpatient follow up. High intensity statin treatment is recommended for all patients with ACS to reduce major adverse…

Soft tissue corticosteroid injection

…fact worse than no treatment at all at one year . The injection is therefore a tool to make rehabilitation possible, not an alternative to it…

Cardiovascular Risk Assessment with SCORE2 and SCORE2-OP

…BP guidelines. For adults with elevated BP, a calculated 10 year risk of ≥10% is considered sufficiently high to support BP lowering treatment, whether through…

Common laboratory tests

…A tourniquet left on during sampling raises the potassium, calcium and proteins. Fasting is required for triglycerides but not for cholesterol, nor for glucose when…

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Clinical ECG Interpretation

The ECG book is a comprehensive e-book, covering all aspects of clinical ECG interpretation, and will take you from cell to bedside.

The Normal ECG: From Normality to Pathology

…the normal ECG, normal variants and diagnosis of pathological findings. A total of 8 lessons will guide you through all the waves, intervals, and durations…

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