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New Onset Heart Failure and Frequent Prolonged SVT. What is it? Management?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NT-proBNP values less than 300 pg/ml have a 99% negative predictive value for excluding congestive heart failure. A cutoff of 1200 pg/ml for patients with a normal eGFR is very specific for heart failure. Troponin I was 0.054 ng/mL NT-ProBNP was 8316 (0-900 pg/mL). "

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Emergency Department Syncope Workup: After H and P, ECG is the Only Test Required for Every Patient.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

History of Cardiovascular disease (all studies): Especially any history of heart failure or structural cardiac disease, including valvular 4. Finally, much of this correlates well with The new Canadian Syncope Arrhythmia Risk Score , just published in 2016, results of which are given below in the Annotated Bibliography.