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Blood gas interpretation: quick reference for acid-base disorders

…of pH and the metabolic component, but it should not be regarded as fully interchangeable with an arterial sample [3]. Venous pH is on average…

Inpatient insulin therapy: quick reference

…with correction doses alone according to the glucose value, without basal insulin (a so called sliding scale), gives poorer control and is not recommended as…

De-escalation and Shortened Dual Antiplatelet Therapy in Patients at High Bleeding Risk

…involve: reducing the duration of DAPT; stopping aspirin and continuing P2Y12 inhibitor monotherapy; switching from a potent P2Y12 inhibitor to clopidogrel; reducing the dose of…

Smoking Cessation: Pharmacotherapy and Cardiovascular Benefit

…five years of stopping but may remain elevated thereafter. The overall health benefit is greater still when reductions in non cardiovascular morbidity and mortality are…

Statin Intolerance and Statin-Associated Muscle Symptoms

…responses and immune activity. Statin intolerance refers to adverse effects attributed to statin treatment that improve or resolve after reducing the dose or stopping therapy…

Introduction to Coronary Artery Disease (Ischemic Heart Disease)

…accompanied with a sensation, which threatens instant death if the motion is persisted in; and, that on stopping, the distress immediately abates, or altogether subsides…

Standard Transthoracic Echocardiogram: Complete Imaging Protocol

…can be made in order to focus on the region of interest and optimize the image. These maneuvers are tilting, rotating, sliding, rocking and angling…

Anticoagulants: quick reference for dosing, renal adjustment and reversal

…its own thresholds in the patient on anticoagulants; see the acute stroke quick reference. Stopping the drug and forgetting to restart it after the procedure…

Corticosteroids: quick reference for dose equivalents and stress dosing

…long period, according to the local protocol Psychiatric symptoms Sleep disturbance, hypomania, confusion. Commonest early on and at high doses Muscle weakness Steroid myopathy, with…

Oesophageal ECG

…Set the filter: a frequency range of about 15–40 Hz , and adjust the gain so that the atrial deflections are clear without clipping. 4…

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