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Approach to patients with chest pain: differential diagnoses, management & ECG

…sensation across the precordium and may radiate to the neck, shoulder, jaw, back, upper abdomen, and left or right arm. Onset and evolution How do…

Endotracheal intubation

…consistent with the treatment plan — check any decision to limit treatment when time allows. There is complete upper airway obstruction where laryngoscopy will not succeed…

Deceased donor organ donation

…clarity and respect is also what makes the decision hold afterwards. Organ preserving treatment — treatment given solely for the sake of the donation — may continue…

Blood transfusion and massive haemorrhage

…The decision must be documented and alternatives (iron, tranexamic acid, cell salvage, haemorrhage control) planned in advance. A history of a severe transfusion reaction: contact…

Ventricular Tachycardia

…bundles of myocytes that form the slow conducting isthmuses critical for re entry [6] . Non ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy (NICM), hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), and arrhythmogenic right…

Interpreting NT-proBNP and BNP in Clinical Decision-Making

…NT proBNP) are circulating markers of myocardial wall stress. They are released principally by ventricular cardiomyocytes in response to increased transmural stress and ventricular stretch…

Short Synacthen test

…cortisol assay, whether the samples were taken at the right times, and whether you know which decision threshold your own laboratory's method uses. In…

Coronary Anatomy and Segmental Classification for the Clinician

…malignant than anomalous origin of the right coronary artery. High risk anatomical features include: An interarterial course between the aorta and pulmonary artery A slit…

Lumbar puncture

…It is the decision whether to perform it now or after imaging, how the patient is positioned, which needle is chosen, and that the tubes…

ECG parameters

…speed of 50 mm/s with 1 mV = 10 mm. At 50 mm/s a small square (1 mm) corresponds to 20 ms and…

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