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Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and Holter ECG

…than for medical reasons: the cuff is in the wrong place, the electrodes come off, the patient has not kept a diary. The set up…

Reduction of dislocations

…the patient tenses up with pain, or because the operator pulls harder rather than more slowly. The neurovascular status must be documented before and after…

Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation: Choosing Anticoagulation

…persistent, long standing persistent and permanent—and is not determined solely by the apparent frequency or duration of documented episodes. The central therapeutic objective is…

Oesophageal ECG

…are concealed. A recurrent unclear wide or narrow complex tachycardia in which the mechanism needs to be documented before referral to an arrhythmia unit. Assessment…

Soft tissue corticosteroid injection

…Lederspan 20 mg/mL) or methylprednisolone acetate (Depo Medrol 40 mg/mL). Triamcinolone acetonide (Kenacort T) has been out of stock for a long period —…

Cardiovascular Risk Assessment with SCORE2 and SCORE2-OP

…for apparently healthy people or for individuals with elevated BP who do not already have a condition conferring sufficiently high cardiovascular risk. They should not…

Cardiovascular Risk in Inflammatory and Autoimmune Disease

…cardiovascular burden is particularly important because it may occur at a younger age, may not be fully captured by conventional risk scores and may be…

Fourth Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction: Types 1–5

…the 99th percentile upper reference limit (URL). The injury is considered acute if there is a documented rise and/or fall of cTn values. However…

Microvascular Angina and INOCA: Diagnosis with CFR and IMR

…as well as a greater prevalence of MVA. Symptoms may be persistent or episodic and may not follow a classical pattern of stable exertional angina…

Cardiac arrest in hypothermia (accidental hypothermia)

…a meticulous assessment of vital signs is crucial. Exceptionally high survival rates have been documented in cases of accidental hypothermia followed by cardiac arrest. For…

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