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Differential Diagnosis of Chest Pain: A Clinical Overview

…While dyspnea is the cardinal symptom, chest pain can be present [5]. Distinguishing Features: Pleuritic pain suggests pulmonary infarction, and a history of pain exacerbation…

Chest Pain in the Emergency Department: Diagnostic Pathways

…Atherosclerotic and thromboembolic risk factors. Relevant predispositions, such as connective tissue disease. No single pain descriptor is diagnostic. The severity of pain also has limited…

Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease: Assessment and Treatment

…of obesity rises. Nevertheless, BMI alone does not define an individual’s cardiovascular risk. Cardiorespiratory fitness, skeletal muscle mass and the distribution of adipose tissue…

Physical Activity Prescription for Cardiovascular Prevention

…age based target. Relevant considerations include cardiovascular disease, exercise capacity, symptoms, comorbidities, previous activity level, psychological factors, goals and the intended setting. Pre participation screening…

Acute exacerbation of COPD: quick reference

…risk of hypercapnia and a normal blood gas Usually 94 to 98 percent An individually documented target prescription, for example in chronic hypercapnia Follow the…

Acute vertigo: quick reference for HINTS and differential diagnosis

…attack and a movement that merely worsens dizziness that is already ongoing . A patient with BPPV is usually relatively free of symptoms between the brief…

Alcohol withdrawal and delirium tremens: quick reference

…tremens the aim should be a calm, mildly somnolent but rousable patient, while ventilation, circulation and underlying disease are monitored [3]. The management of complicated…

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and Holter ECG

…recorder Contraindications None. Practical obstacles are skin disease or allergy to the electrode gel, and marked body hair that cannot be shaved. Set up 1…

Ankle-brachial index (ABI)

Procedurer The ankle brachial index is the cheapest and most accessible method of objectively demonstrating peripheral arterial disease, and it is needed more often than…

Arterial line

…patient — the anaesthetic also improves the chance of success by counteracting vascular spasm. Pressure monitoring set: stiff, short tubing, a transducer, and a flush system…

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