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Colchicine and Anti-inflammatory Therapy in Coronary Disease

…pressure or other conventional risk factors. Colchicine is an established anti inflammatory drug that may inhibit inflammasome activity, reduce interleukin 1β and interleukin 6…

Assessment of the pupillary reflex in cardiac arrest

…involving more than 11,000 cardiac arrest cases, the correlation between the initial pupillary reflex (observed upon emergency department arrival) and the neurological status assessed…

ECG changes caused by antiarrhythmic drugs, beta blockers & calcium channel blockers

…syndrome) and other conditions involving an accessory pathway. Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in patients with severe symptoms, provided that first line therapies have failed and the…

Chronic Coronary Syndrome: Diagnosis and Initial Evaluation

…symptoms having all of the traditional aggravating and relieving characteristics of angina; many patients report less characteristic symptoms, while others present primarily with exertional dyspnoea…

Ventricular fibrillation, pulseless electrical activity and sudden cardiac arrest

…Other common causes are cardiomyopathy (hypertrophic or dilated), arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, Brugada syndrome, early repolarization. Electrolyte disorders, acidosis, hypoxemia and ischemia all aggravate the…

Arrhythmias before and during cardiac arrest

…regardless of all other circumstances. The initial rhythm is an indicator of the underlying etiology, duration of cardiac arrest, quality of CPR, and a prognostic…

Clinical application of ECG in chest pain & acute myocardial infarction

…that a traditional 12 lead ECG only presents a few seconds of myocardial electrical activity and there is a chance that ischemic episodes are missed…

Physics of myocardial perfusion imaging (SPECT, PET): Radiotracers, perfusion, blood flow and viability

…myocardial blood flow and measured tracer activity over a wide range (Murthy et al.). As evident in Figure 1, 15 O water is the only…

The ECG leads: Electrodes, limb leads, chest (precordial) leads and the 12-Lead ECG

…An ECG lead is a graphical description of the electrical activity of the heart and it is created by analyzing several electrodes. In other words…

Third-degree AV block (3rd degree AV block, AV block 3, AV block III)

…from each other. This condition is referred to as atrioventricular (AV) dissociation. Importantly, for the ventricles to have any electrical (and thus pumping) activity at…

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