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Medical Category: Cardiovascular

The Real-World Calculation of the HEART Score

Background: Not a single clinical shift passes without evaluation of at least one patient with chest pain. This chief complaint accounts for 6.5 million visits per year and is the second most common presenting symptom to the emergency department (ED).1 ...

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Cardiovascular

Retrospective Validation of High-Sensitivity Troponin with 5 Clinical Decision Instruments

Background: Chest pain is the second most common reason for presentation to the emergency department (ED) and accounts for nearly 6.5 million visits each year. Management often requires the utilization of clinical gestalt, laboratory analysis, diagnostic imaging, and clinical prediction ...

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Cardiovascular

REBEL Core Cast 66.0 – Congenital Cardiac Issues

Take Home Points Once you figure out the neonate that presented to your ED is sick, run through a differential of why then can be sick so you don’t anchor. I like to use TIMOT (Trauma, Infection, Metabolic, Organs, Tox) ...

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CardiovascularPediatrics

REBEL Cast Ep101: The TOMAHAWK Trial – Angiography after OHCA without STEMI

Background: The clinical importance of immediate coronary angiography after out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) without STEMI continues to be debated. A systematic review and meta-analysis published in 2016 suggested that this set of patients has a high likelihood of ...

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CardiovascularResuscitation

Rebellion21: Time to Evolve – Redefining Coronary Ischemia – The OMI/NOMI Paradigm via Tarlan Hedayati, MD

In this 14-minute presentation from Rebellion in EM 2021, Dr. Tarlan Hedayati, MD discusses the shift from the paradigm of STEMI/NSTEMI to OMI/NOMI.

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Cardiovascular
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