Musings on the point of equipoise for investigating and discharging chest pain patients in light of a new paper in the Lancet describing a rapid rule-out protocol for acute coronary syndromes (the ASPECT trial).
EBM Chest Pain Adjunctive Therapies
November 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
EBM review of Chest Pain Adjunctive Therapies including adjunctive anticoagulant therapy, adjunctive anti-thrombotic therapy and other therapeutic agents
EBM Chest Pain Management
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EBM Chest Pain Management including early Management of STEMI or NSTEACS, reperfusion strategies, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and thrombolysis
EBM Chest Pain
November 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Chest Pain and risk stratification – EBM Review. Coronary heart disease single largest cause of death (16% or 27,000) in 2007 in Australia, but down from 22% in 1998.
Puzzling out the PERC rule
May 27, 2010 By 4 Comments
DeBakey’s Dissection
March 23, 2010 By 2 Comments
A previously well 50 year old presents with sharp severe chest pain after a long haul flight from North America. A chest X-ray and ECG are performed and reveal no abnormalities
