…coronary syndrome Reinfarction reduced by approximately 30–40%; death reduced by approximately 35–45% Peripheral artery disease Lower risk of progression to chronic limb threat

…symptoms are absent [1,4]. Typical warning symptoms are: hoarseness, stridor, swelling of the tongue or throat dyspnoea, hypoxia, bronchospasm or severe cough hypotension, collapse…

…Other symptoms include dyspnea, pain radiating to the left arm/shoulder/throat, palpitations, back pain and selected cases of upper abdominal pain. An ECG recording…

…ventricular fibrillation. Cardioversion : Use of synchronized electric shock (i.e. a shock synchronized to the QRS complex). Typically used to treat atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia…

…Number Needed to Treat (NNT) is the number of patients you need to treat to save one. If an intervention has an NNT of 10…

…and treat an obstructive coronary lesion without avoidable delay. In contrast, haemodynamically stable patients without ST segment elevation after successful resuscitation from out of hospital…

…treat reversible causes, e.g. myocardial ischemia. Yan et al showed that globally the incidence of ROSC in OHCA is roughly 30%, the rate of…

…used to prevent or treat acute and subacute ventricular arrhythmias. The Singh Vaughan Williams classification fails to clarify that the majority of these agents exert…

…used to prevent or treat acute and subacute ventricular arrhythmias. The Singh Vaughan Williams classification fails to clarify that the majority of these agents exert…

…optimal balance for deciding on ICD implantation, yielded a number needed to treat (NNT) of nine (95% CI: 6.3–13.6). References 1.Mazzanti…