…indicated with continuing ischaemia, shock, serious arrhythmia or acute heart failure. Routine opening of a persistently occluded infarct related artery in a stable and asymptomatic…

…benefit of both methods falls steeply with the time since ingestion, and both can harm the patient through aspiration. Contact your national or regional poison…

…downwards and backwards in small children. 3. Rest your hand against the patient's cheek so that the otoscope moves with the head if it…

…e applying an external electrical current that depolarizes cells in contact with the lead tip, and thus generate an action potential that will spread through…

…2. Designate a team leader and one person responsible for recording the transfusions, the sampling, the incoming products and contact with the blood bank. 3…

…by contact between inflamed pericardial layers. It may have up to three components per cardiac cycle and is often best heard at end expiration with…

…intraosseous access if intravenous access cannot be obtained quickly and parenteral treatment is needed. Prepare airway equipment and contact anaesthesia early with a prolonged seizure…

…dislocation requiring operative treatment — contact an orthopaedic surgeon before attempting reduction. Posterior shoulder dislocation, which is often associated with fracture and requires an orthopaedic surgeon…

…medical contact and interpreted within a target of 10 minutes. Prehospital ECG acquisition can shorten the time to diagnosis and facilitate triage of patients with…

…V3). IIa B In patients with inferior myocardial infarction, consider connecting V3R and V4R to detect concomitant right ventricular infarction. IIa B Routine blood sampling…