Browsing: Cardiology

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A 68-year-old female with a past medical history of hypertension presents to the emergency department via private vehicle for recurrent intermittent episodes of unresponsiveness that started just prio
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More studies are needed to create sensitive and specific criteria for coronary-related ischemia in patients with biventricular pacemakers, but high clinical suspicion, changes in EKG, and early recogn
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Critical Care Alert: The PREPARE II trial investigated whether a fluid bolus would impact cardiovascular collapse in critically ill patients undergoing intubation.
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A 27-year-old male with a PMH of seizure disorder and developmental delay presents via EMS after a witnessed seizure. The patient was able to intermittently go into sinus rhythm with vagal maneuvers.
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Critical Care Alert: Femoral artery Doppler ultrasound is more accurate than manual palpation for pulse detection in cardiac arrest. Although it was a small study, it sheds light on resuscitation mana
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Our retrospective secondary analysis of data from the Pragmatic Airway Resuscitation Trial (PART), examining the timing of airway management in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, found that: (1) there wa
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A recent study aimed to develop and validate a modified Goto’s termination-of-resuscitation rule. The results can inform emergency department management of patients who suffered out-of-hospital cardia
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A 36-year-old female with a PMH of alcohol use disorder and type 1 DM presents with substernal chest tightness, nausea, vomiting, and diaphoresis. What is your interpretation of her ECG?
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Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) involves the application of percutaneous veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) for management of cardiac arrest in the emergen
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Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD) is associated with cardiac arrest in women during the peripartum period. The mechanism of SCAD is thought to be partially related to inflammatory changes