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Heart-Valve-Surgery.Com and Medtronic Launch Novel "Aortic Stenosis Patient Activation Platform" to Empower Patients

DAIC

Patients with aortic stenosis often have heart murmurs and experience debilitating symptoms including chest pain, dizziness, fatigue, shortness of breath and an irregular heartbeat. To download the new eBook, "Medtronic TAVR Procedure: What 7 Facts Should Patients Know?", click here.

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Viral symptoms, then acute chest pain and this ECG. What do you do?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

He presented to the ED because he developed sudden severe, sharp, pleuritic (but not positional), substernal and left mid to lower chest pain. Another similar case: Teenager with chest pain and slightly elevated troponin. He had this ECG at time 0 What do you think? What happens then? Pericarditis?

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Heart-Valve-Surgery.Com, Medtronic Launch Novel 'Aortic Stenosis Patient Activation Platform' to Empower Patients

DAIC

Patients with aortic stenosis often have heart murmurs and experience debilitating symptoms including chest pain, dizziness, fatigue, shortness of breath and an irregular heartbeat. To download the new eBook, "Medtronic TAVR Procedure: What 7 Facts Should Patients Know?", click here.

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Our OMI Toolbox Application is out now !

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Additionally, the App also includes a chest pain section, namely EDACS risk score, which is already a well known and validated tool for the approach to acute chest pain (many thanks for its developers and their courtesy for letting us to use it in our App, Martin Than, MD; John Pickering, BSc, PhD, BA and Dylan Flaws, MSc, PhD).

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ECG Blog #399 — Which Laddergram is Correct?

Ken Grauer, MD

She was hemodynamically stable — and did not have chest pain, lightheadedness or syncope. Section 2F ( 6 pages = the " short " Answer ) from my ECG-2014 Pocket Brain book provides quick written review of the AV Blocks ( This is a free download ). This is a free download ). Is this " high -grade" AV block?

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ECG Blog #376 — A 15yo with Fever.

Ken Grauer, MD

No chest pain. In a previously healthy adolescent ( who is 15 years old in today's case ) — the presentation of an acute febrile illness that is without a complaint of chest pain, is highly unlikely to be due to an acute MI. He was hemodynamically stable. How would YOU interpret the ECG in Figure-1 ?

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The Evolving Computed Tomography Market

DAIC

The recent change in guidelines from the ACC and AHA are now clear that cardiac CT is the Level 1A evidence recommended test for diagnosis of stable and acute chest pain,” said Chaim Lotan, MD, professor at Hadassah-Hebrew University, in a written statement from Arineta. The benefits of continuing education prove to be invaluable.