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Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: Diagnosis and Treatment

…a rate appropriate to tissue requirements unless filling pressures are elevated. The syndrome is therefore defined by symptoms and signs of congestion or impaired cardiac…

Right Ventricular Infarction: Recognition and Haemodynamic Management

…Clinical evidence of low cardiac output or shock RVI may produce severe venous congestion even when the left sided filling pressure is normal or only…

Heart Failure With Mildly Reduced Ejection Fraction

…functional cardiac abnormality or raised natriuretic peptides is not mandatory for HFmrEF when the diagnosis of heart failure is clinically secure and the LVEF measurement…

Ejection fraction (EF): Physiology, Measurement & Clinical Evaluation

…or supranormal ejection fraction , despite manifest heart failure and severe symptoms. These individuals exhibit pronounced hypertrophy, resulting in a reduction of ventricular volume and subsequently…

Stroke Volume, VTI (Velocity Time Integral) & Cardiac Output

…the product of stroke volume and heart rate: CO = SV • HR CO = cardiac output; SV = stroke volume; HR = heart rate. Cardiac…

Peripheral venous cannula and intraosseous access

…or blood products. Contrast medium for CT (this requires a large bore cannula in a suitable vein). Standby access in a patient at risk of…

Assessing left ventricular systolic function

…measurement of the diameter. Cardiac output (CO) Cardiac output is the product of stroke volume (SV) and heart rate (HR). CO = HR · SV Cardiac…

Edrophonium test

…of the chosen finding — measurement, photograph or video. 3. Give atropine 0.5 mg intravenously (alternatively glycopyrronium 0.2 mg) to reduce the risk of…

Corticosteroids: quick reference for dose equivalents and stress dosing

…effect. They say nothing about the mineralocorticoid effect or about suppression of the HPA axis, where a long half life produces more marked suppression. Stress…

Inpatient insulin therapy: quick reference

…in the hospital. Endocrine Society clinical practice guideline on the management of hyperglycaemia in hospitalised adults. The summary of product characteristics for each insulin preparation.

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