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

…and the pulse oximetry test will correctly identify five of these with critical CHD ( Plana et al ). Minor defects can go unnoticed for many years…

High-Sensitivity Troponin: 0/1-Hour Rule-In and Rule-Out Algorithms

…in isolation because myocardial injury is also encountered in non ACS cardiopulmonary disease. Patients with persistent or recurrent chest pain require repeat blood sampling even…

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

…the trap of oversimplification. Physicians, nurses, paramedics and physician assistants who rely on such books will realize their shortcomings at their first encounter with an…

Lumbar puncture

…for bacterial CNS infections states that CT must not be performed before lumbar puncture in suspected bacterial meningitis — not even with a reduced level of…

Artifacts in ultrasound imaging

…e structures with high echogenicity). For each reflection, a portion of the sound waves return to the transducer and produce a copy of the reflector…

Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring: Prognostic Use in Practice

…sex , and race based percentile Comparison with the expected score for a person of the same age and sex CAC may also reveal extracoronary findings…

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

…used instead of enlargement. Atrial enlargement/abnormality often accompanies ventricular enlargement. The ECG has, as one could expect, low sensitivity but high specificity with respect…

Smoking Cessation: Pharmacotherapy and Cardiovascular Benefit

…cessation lowers the risk of peripheral artery disease, myocardial infarction, premature death, recurrent infarction and limb threatening complications. Among patients with established peripheral artery disease…

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

…Use of the term PSVT is therefore not recommended. Synonyms for AVNRT Atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia Atrioventricular nodal reentry tachycardia Atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachyarrhythmia Atrioventricular…

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

…Mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias: from automaticity to re entry This section introduces the most common arrhythmias encountered in clinical practice, beginning with a discussion of…

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