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Management of bradycardia (bradyarrhythmia)

…heart failure and cardiac arrest. In cases with intermittent symptoms, it is important to establish a temporal correlation between symptoms and episodes of bradyarrhythmia on…

Heart failure: Causes, types, diagnosis, treatments & management

…This is a paradoxical and worrisome trend, particularly in light of the improvements in the management of hypertension (coronary heart disease and hypertension are traditionally…

Heart failure: Introduction

…This is a paradoxical and worrisome trend, particularly in light of the improvements in the management of hypertension (coronary heart disease and hypertension are traditionally…

Smoking Cessation: Pharmacotherapy and Cardiovascular Benefit

…driver of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. Its relationship with cardiovascular risk is nonlinear: even light smoking carries a substantial proportion of the excess ischaemic heart…

Epistaxis — compression, cautery and anterior nasal packing

…the majority of all anterior bleeds. Step 2 — cautery 1. Suction clear and identify the bleeding point with a nasal speculum and a head lamp…

Exercise stress test on cycle ergometer

…Assessment of exercise capacity and symptoms in known heart disease. Risk assessment after myocardial infarction or before revascularisation. Evaluation of treatment effect in stable angina…

Cardiac arrest in hyperthermia and malignant hyperthermia

…cardiac arrest and influence on outcome. Resuscitation 2012;83:120611. Wang CH, Huang CH, Chang WT, et al. The effects of calcium and sodium bicarbonate…

Physical Activity Prescription for Cardiovascular Prevention

…arterial disease, heart failure, depression, dementia and osteoporosis. It also improves functional capacity, skeletal health, muscular strength, quality of life and psychological well being. Physical…

Ivabradine: Indications, Dosing and Heart-Rate Targets

…and resting heart rate 75 beats/min, based on a retrospective subgroup analysis in which a survival benefit was observed. Inappropriate sinus tachycardia Treatment of…

Cardiovascular effects of COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019)

Cardiology Continous medical discussion: the ECG blog Infectious diseases Cardiovascular effects of COVID 19 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID 19) has caused a global public health…

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