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Pericarditis, myocarditis & perimyocarditis: ECG, criteria & treatment

…changes and clinical features The pericardium is a double walled sac in which the heart and the roots of the great vessels are contained (Figure…

Corticosteroids: quick reference for dose equivalents and stress dosing

…infection or gastroenteritis at home Double or triple the oral daily dose during the days of illness (the patient's sick day rules) Vomiting or…

Carotid Artery Disease: Screening, Medical Therapy and Revascularisation

…is also a marker of systemic cardiovascular risk. The presence of a carotid bruit is associated with approximately double the risk of myocardial infarction and…

Artifacts in ultrasound imaging

…to the tissue. Reverberations are common when examining lung tissue; the double layered pleura produce reverberations, which are referred to as A lines . Figure 3…

Eye examination and corneal foreign body

…important is to look for signs of perforation — Seidel's sign, an irregular pupil, a soft globe — because a perforated eye must never be instrumented…

Skin biopsy — punch, shave and excision

…mL syringe. Punches of 2, 3, 4 and 6 mm. A size 15 scalpel, a double edged razor blade or a flexible shave blade. Artery…

Bempedoic Acid: Evidence and Clinical Use

…a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled study of 13,970 patients at high cardiovascular risk who were unable or unwilling to take statins. Approximately 70…

Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection

…imaging to demonstrate an intramural haematoma or double lumen Type 1 is reported in fewer than one third of cases in the pregnancy related source…

Levosimendan (Simdax, Simendan) in acute heart failure

…525) In a randomized, double blind study involving 192 patients with cardiogenic shock, researchers compared the effectiveness of milrinone and dobutamine . The primary composite outcome…

Performing Echocardiographic Examinations

…means that the machine emits ultrasound waves with a certain frequency and subsequently records reflected sound waves at double the frequency of the emitted waves…

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