Tag: Cardiology

CHEETAH

In patients undergoing cardiac surgery with left ventricular dysfunction, does levosimendan compared to placebo reduce mortality?

LEVO-CTS

In patients with LVEF <35% undergoing cardiac surgery does levosimenden compared with placebo reduce the incidence of a composite outcome of: death at day 30; renal replacement therapy at day 30; perioperative myocardial infarct at day 5; and use of mechanical assist device at day 5

Mahler

2 December 2016 Ben Short Emergency Medicine One comment

In patients presenting to the Emergency Department with chest pain, does the HEART Pathway compared with usual care, reduce objective cardiac testing?

POCUS: Feissel

16 November 2016 David Slessor Intensive Care Medicine Leave a comment

In patients with septic shock who are mechanically ventilated does indexed LV end-diastolic area and respiratory changes in aortic blood velocity predict the haemodynamic effects of volume expansion?

Subtle STEMI

19 August 2016 David Slessor Emergency Medicine 3 comments

Are there specific ECG characteristics that can differentiate between anterior ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and early repolarisation?

PROCAMIO

29 July 2016 David Slessor Emergency Medicine 4 comments

In patients with wide QRS (probably ventricular) tachycardia, does intravenous procainamide compared with intravenous amiodarone reduce major adverse cardiac events?

After 80 study

15 April 2016 David Slessor Emergency Medicine 3 comments

In patients aged 80 years or older, with unstable angina/non-ST elevation myocardial infaction (NSTEMI), does an early invasive strategy compared with a conservative strategy, reduce the composite outcome of myocardial infarction, need for urgent revascularisation, stroke and death?

ALPS

5 April 2016 Celia Bradford Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, Summaries 5 comments

In adult patients with nontraumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and shock-refractory ventricular fibrillation (VF) or pulseless ventricular tachycardia (pVT), does amiodarone or lidocaine along with standard care result in improved survival and more favourable neurological outcome compared with placebo?

AVOID

25 September 2015 Celia Bradford Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, Peri-operative Medicine 7 comments

In patients with ST-elevation-myocardial infarction (STEMI), without hypoxia, does receiving supplemental oxygen compared with no supplemental oxygen reduce early myocardial injury?

REVERT

11 September 2015 Steve Mathieu Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine 2 comments

Does a modified Valsalva technique, incorporating a leg lift procedure, result in improved success in converting a supraventricular tachycardia to sinus rhythm in patients presenting to the Emergency Department?

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