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Smoking Cessation: Pharmacotherapy and Cardiovascular Benefit

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

Cardiac Rehabilitation After Myocardial Infarction

…also influence prognosis. Major depression after infarction is associated independently with increased mortality, while inadequate emotional support is associated with recurrent cardiac events. One possible…

Exercise stress test on cycle ergometer

Procedurer The value of the exercise test lies not in ST depression alone but in the overall picture : exercise capacity, symptoms, blood pressure response, heart…

Opioid therapy in severe pain

…pain, or in headache. A failure to improve function is a reason to taper off, not to increase the dose. Contraindications Ongoing respiratory depression, or…

Physical Activity Prescription for Cardiovascular Prevention

…well being. Physical inactivity is itself a major cardiovascular risk factor. Sedentary behaviour may confer risk even in individuals who achieve recommended exercise volumes; therefore…

Delirium in older adults: quick reference

Akutsjukvård Psykiatri Lathundar Delirium in older adults: quick reference A quick reference for ward and on call physicians: recognise hypoactive delirium, stabilise the patient, work…

Posterior Myocardial Infarction: Diagnosis on the Standard ECG

…setting, this pattern constitutes an ST segment elevation equivalent acute coronary syndrome. The principal standard ECG findings are: ST segment depression in V1–V3, par

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

…rapid advances in the 1970s and 1980s were followed by almost two decades without any major breakthrough in the management of heart failure. In 2014…

Heart failure: Introduction

…rapid advances in the 1970s and 1980s were followed by almost two decades without any major breakthrough in the management of heart failure. In 2014…

Hypertension: Initial Combination Therapy and Drug Selection

Cardiology Pharmacology & dosing Definition and Therapeutic Rationale Hypertension is a major risk factor for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and contributes to microvascular and macrovascular complications. It…

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