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Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring: Prognostic Use in Practice

…opportunistic assessment during clinical encounters improves detection of risk factors such as elevated blood pressure and lipid abnormalities. CAC should therefore be integrated with clinical…

Interpretation of Pacemaker ECG

…which enables the clinician to examine intracardiac ECGs at any time. However, most clinicians who encounter patients with pacemakers only have access to conventional surface…

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

…clinicians will regularly encounter patients with CHD. Approximately 95% of all incident cases of congenital heart disease reach adulthood ( Mandalenakis et al ). The largest leap…

Aberrant ventricular conduction (aberrancy, aberration)

…prolonged and then shortened. The initial prolongation increases the length of the refractory period and the subsequent early impulse will therefore encounter refractory fibers. Thus…

Smoking Cessation: Pharmacotherapy and Cardiovascular Benefit

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

🟠 QTc Interval Calculator (Bazett’s, Fridericia’s, Hodge's and Framingham Formulas)

…around the isoelectric baseline. The risk of ventricular fibrillation is very high during torsade de pointes . ECG showing an episode of sinus rhythm (with multiple…

🟠 Mean arterial pressure (MAP) calculator

…in patients with irregular heart rhythms or low blood pressure. Additionally, individual variations in arterial compliance and pulse pressure can affect the accuracy of MAP…

Lumbar puncture

…in haematological malignancy. Investigation of dementia with biomarkers (amyloid, tau, phospho tau). Measurement of the opening pressure in suspected idiopathic intracranial hypertension. Therapeutic drainage in…

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

…via the His Purkinje system, and in most cases, there is no significant hemodynamic compromise. However, in cases of rapid AVNRT or in patients with…

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

…An accelerating pattern of angina, with increasing frequency or severity Symptoms that awaken the patient from sleep Clinical assessment must be integrated with vital signs…

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