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Commentaries on cases involving acute coronary syndrome in a 53-year-old obese patient and serotonin syndrome in a 20-year-old man with a history...
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SVS: Four easy preop variables predict mortality in ruptured AAAs
Surgery isn’t always the best option.
News
CVD becomes second-largest cause of death in U.K.
Cardiovascular disease is no longer the main cause of death in the United Kingdom overall, but it is still the top killer of women in the U.K.
Conference Coverage
Idarucizumab reverses dabigatran’s anticoagulant effects
Key clinical point: The investigational monoclonal antibody idarucizumab reversed the anticoagulant effects of dabigatran. Major finding:...
News
FDA approves cangrelor, an intravenous antiplatelet drug
Conference Coverage
European cardiologists seek involvement in acute stroke
News
First EDition: News for and about the practice of Emergency Medicine
Conference Coverage
EuroPCR: CT-derived FFR promising in evaluating chest pain
Key clinical point: Clinically decisive anatomic and physiologic data regarding the coronary arteries of patients with stable angina can be...
News
Chest pain: Risks of evaluation may outweigh benefits
Key clinical point: The chance that chest pain signals a cardiac event is “exceedingly low” in ED patients who have negative serial biomarker...
Conference Coverage
SAEM: STEMI in the ED: Will lower incidence threaten timely care?
Key clinical point: A decline in STEMI visits to the ED and a rise in transfers of STEMI patients from the ED present challenges to timely...
Conference Coverage
Ultrasound accurately predicts trauma thoracotomy survival
Key clinical point: Trauma arrest victims who will survive resuscitative thoracotomy can be predicted using focused assessment with sonography in...