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Smoking Cessation: Pharmacotherapy and Cardiovascular Benefit

…Readiness to attempt cessation. Depression, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, HIV infection or other circumstances that may affect cessation or treatment monitoring. Single question screening can identify…

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

…with neonatal pulse oximetry (POX) screening , which is routine in all Western countries. According to a Cochrane review, for every 10,000 apparently healthy newborn…

Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring: Prognostic Use in Practice

…Systematic screening of the general population for cardiovascular risk factors has not been shown to improve cardiovascular outcomes, although opportunistic assessment during clinical encounters improves…

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

…differential diagnoses for each condition. Moreover, most books included very few real world examples of the conditions, or provided too few tests to result in…

Lumbar puncture

…or cannot be advanced. An introducer for the atraumatic needle — it is too soft to pass through the skin on its own. Local anaesthesia: lidocaine…

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…

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

…atrium encounters increased resistance (due to mitral valve stenosis, mitral valve regurgitation, hypertension, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy) it becomes enlarged (hypertrophy) which enhances its contribution to the…

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

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

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

…activity. This is partly due to the rise of cardiac imaging and invasive electrophysiological methods which allow for detailed in vivo studies of arrhythmias. However…

🟠 Mean arterial pressure (MAP) calculator

…often preferred over SBP for the following reasons: Indicator of Organ Perfusion : MAP is a more reliable indicator of blood flow to vital organs than…

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