Practical Emergency Medicine

Overview Cocaine is a commonly used illegal recreational drug that may have significant cardiovascular implications. In particular,...

Summary Myocarditis is an inflammatory disease of the myocardium with a wide range of clinical presentations, from subtle to devastating....

Summary Acute pericarditis is an inflammation of the pericardium characterized by pericarditic chest pain, pericardial friction rub, and...

Practice Essentials Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is an unexpected death due to cardiac causes that occurs in a short time period (generally...

Practice Essentials Myocardial infarction (MI) (ie, heart attack) is the irreversible death (necrosis) of heart muscle secondary to...

Background Wellens syndrome was first described in the early 1980s by de Zwaan, Wellens, and colleagues, who identified a subset of...

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Practice Essentials Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) refers to a spectrum of clinical presentations ranging from those for ST-segment...

1. Initial evaluation is as follows: [1, 2, 3, 4] Assess appropriateness for clinical condition (pulse present and unstable). Heart rate...

PALS: Bradycardia 1. The initial evaluation is as follows: [1, 2, 3, 4] Assess appropriateness for clinical condition (pulse present and...