Tagged ‘Cardiology’

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Infective Endocarditis

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This post takes a deep dive into infective endocarditis with a focus on diagnosis.
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The YEARS Study – Simplified Diagnostic Management of PE

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Background

The clinical diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (PE) can be challenging given its variable presentation, requiring dependence on objective testing. Decision instruments such as PERC and the Wells’ score help stratify patients to low or high probability,
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Should All Patients with AMI Get O2?

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Each year approximately 790,000 Americans suffer an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) (Benjamin 2017). Traditional treatment for an acute myocardial infarction has included morphine, oxygen, nitroglycerine and aspirin (MONA) with interventions such as percutaneous coronary intervention providing more definitive management.
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Impact of Disposition on Outcomes and Utilization on ED Chest Pain Patients

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Within the US, chest pain is the most common etiology for observation and short inpatient stays.  Patients are admitted to assess for the presence of serious pathology including acute coronary syndrome (ACS).
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Value of EKG Machine Interpretation

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The Emergency Department, by its nature, is interruption driven given it is “uncontrolled and unpredictable and punctuated by intermittent time-critical activities (Chisholm 2000). On average, each Emergency Physician is interrupted 6.6 times per hour while at work;
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