Articles & courses

ArticlesShow all 55
Digoxin: Dosing, Therapeutic Range and Toxicity Management

…rate or decreasing blood pressure, making it a consideration for patients with low blood pressure secondary to a low cardiac output. Its primary clinical utility…

Noradrenaline, Dobutamine and Levosimendan: Practical Infusion Use

…pharmacodynamic mechanisms. These drugs are broadly utilised to augment myocardial contractility, manipulate systemic and pulmonary vascular resistance, and restore adequate end organ perfusion. Dobutamine is…

Peripheral Artery Disease: Diagnosis, Ankle–Brachial Index and Risk Management

…adventitial disease and trauma. Atherosclerotic PAD is a manifestation of systemic arterial disease rather than an isolated disorder of the lower limbs. Patients frequently have…

Corticosteroids: quick reference for dose equivalents and stress dosing

…patient with primary adrenal insufficiency (Addison's disease), secondary adrenal insufficiency or long term corticosteroid treatment cannot increase their own cortisol production. Situation Action : : Fever…

Dietary Patterns and Cardiovascular Outcomes

…Dietary composition may influence blood pressure, glucose–insulin homeostasis, lipids and apolipoproteins, endothelial function, systemic inflammation, liver fat synthesis, adiposity, thrombosis and coagulation, cardiac function…

Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: Diagnosis and Treatment

…hemodynamic abnormality in HFpEF is impaired diastolic function. The left ventricle may have apparently preserved global systolic emptying while exhibiting impaired relaxation, increased passive stiffness…

Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)

…secondary contributor [8] . Pathophysiology and mechanisms The pathophysiological paradigm of HFpEF has shifted dramatically from the historical concept of isolated "diastolic dysfunction" to a systemic…

Resistant Hypertension: Evaluation and Treatment

…secondary hypertension, treatment related contributors, and excess cardiovascular risk. The European definition requires failure to reduce office systolic and diastolic blood pressure to below 140…

Aspirin in Primary Prevention: Current Recommendations

…cause mortality. Absolute benefit is modest. Across the updated systematic review, absolute reductions in major ASCVD events ranged from 0.8% to 2.5%. In…

Hypertriglyceridaemia: Management and Cardiovascular Risk

…Thresholds vary among guideline systems: Classification Fasting triglycerides Non fasting triglycerides Mild to moderate HTG 150–499 mg/dL (1.7–5.6 mmol/L…

Media

No matches.

Tests

Tools