…older the patient and the more significant the heart disease, the more likely ventricular tachycardia. The Brugada group has also developed an algorithm to differentiate…

…intervals for QTc duration according to Bazett's formula. Note that a QTc interval 480 is always considered pathological. For patients with bundle branch blocks…

…septum and stop with correctly performed compression. The reason compression nevertheless so often fails is that it is done wrongly: the patient pinches the nasal…

…the suspected focus, but avoid sampling that delays antibiotics 6 Take a targeted history and examine the patient, with particular attention to the mouth, throat…

…corrected with iron, B12 or folate in a stable patient. Transfusion given solely to reach a laboratory value without a clinical question. A patient who…

…patient have severe neurological symptoms that may be due to the hyponatraemia? 2. Is the hyponatraemia acute or chronic? Severe symptoms require immediate treatment with…

…findings are absent in roughly half of patients with a central cause. A normal routine neurological examination is therefore not sufficient to exclude stroke [3]…

…reason to refrain from investigating postmenopausal bleeding or a visible cervical lesion. Contraindications There are no absolute contraindications, but refrain or adapt in: The patient…

…mechanisms may coexist, diagnosis and classification must integrate haemodynamics with the patient’s clinical context and the results of all relevant investigations. Haemodynamic definition At…

…not an automatic response to chest pain. It is appropriate when the expected information is likely to change management. In patients with a very low…