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Congenital heart disease & GUCH (Grown Up Congenital Heart disease)

…for every 10,000 apparently healthy newborn infants, around six will have critical CHD, and the pulse oximetry test will correctly identify five of these…

The Best Clinical ECG Book: ECG Made Easy or Complete?

…interpretation will frequently be a matter of life and death. ECG interpretation is a sophisticated art, even in the current era of artificial intelligence (AI)…

Lumbar puncture

…Only clinical signs of herniation halt the puncture, and antibiotics and a corticosteroid are then given immediately after blood cultures. For questions other than acute…

Artifacts in ultrasound imaging

…echogenicity). For each reflection, a portion of the sound waves return to the transducer and produce a copy of the reflector on the image. Hence…

Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring: Prognostic Use in Practice

…presence or haemodynamic significance of a specific stenosis. Clinical Role and Indications CAC scoring is principally a risk stratification tool for individuals without known clinical…

Left atrial enlargement (P mitrale) & right atrial enlargement (P pulmonale) on ECG

…as P mitrale , and right atrial enlargement is often referred to as P pulmonale . The reasons for this are explained below. The normal P wave…

Smoking Cessation: Pharmacotherapy and Cardiovascular Benefit

…improves vascular health and may reduce cardiovascular risk within several years, although risk may remain higher than that of never smokers for a prolonged period…

Atrioventricular nodal reentry tachycardia (AVNRT): ECG features & management

…have any clinical relevance and it may lead to misunderstanding. Use of the term PSVT is therefore not recommended. Synonyms for AVNRT Atrioventricular nodal reentrant…

Mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias: from automaticity to re-entry (reentry)

Arrhythmias and arrhythmology ECG Mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias: from automaticity to re entry This section introduces the most common arrhythmias encountered in clinical practice, beginning…

🟠 Mean arterial pressure (MAP) calculator

…Pressure (CVP) This equation illustrates that MAP is determined by the volume of blood the heart pumps and the resistance encountered in the systemic circulation…

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