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Perioperative Management of Patients with Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices

…lead configuration when records are incomplete. A full device check should be available within the recommended interval before elective surgery. In the absence of malfunction…

Hyperkalaemia: quick reference for emergency treatment

…rate of rise, renal function and the clinical context , not by the potassium value alone. A normal ECG does not exclude dangerous hyperkalaemia. Record a…

🟠 QT Drugs: Drugs causing QT prolongation, torsade de pointes (TdP) and long QT syndrome (LQTS)

…Drugbank Description Pubmed Record DrugBank Record Abarelix Plenaxis Classified as QT prolonging drug in DrugBank. No data on QT prolongation or risk of torsade de…

Exercise stress test on cycle ergometer

…Assessment of chronotropic function and pacemaker settings. Preoperative functional assessment before major surgery. At a low pre test probability most positive results are false positives…

Warfarin therapy

…Warfarin has a narrow therapeutic index, a half life of several days and more than a hundred clinically relevant interactions. What determines whether the treatment…

A new ECG biomarker for sudden cardiac death

…for whom no practical risk prediction tool currently exists. At the other end, roughly two thirds of ICDs implanted for reduced LVEF never deliver an…

No-Reflow Phenomenon During Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Prevention and Treatment

…or no reflow rates may reach 15%–20%, substantially exceeding those seen with native vessel PCI. Mechanisms The principal mechanism is distal embolization of atheromatous…

Opioid therapy in severe pain

Procedurer Opioids have no standard dose. The effect varies tenfold between individuals, and the only way to find the right level is to give a…

Quiz: ECG in athletes

…to ECG interpretation 1. Which of the following ECG findings is typically considered a normal variant in asymptomatic athletes with no significant family history? A:…

Anthropometric measurements

…population measure that performs poorly at the level of the individual: it does not distinguish muscle from fat and takes no account of fat distribution…

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