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The Nation’s Heart: Ghana

Global Cardiac Surgery

Documented reports in Ghana go back to 1964 with the use of surface cooling to close atrial septal defects (ASDs) and performing a closed mitral commissurotomy at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, under Charles Easmon, general surgeon and head of the Surgery Department at the hospital.

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Watch what happens when "pericarditis" and morphine cloud your judgment

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

After admission he undergoes another ECG, though it is unclear from documentation whether there was a change in his chest pain. At 0800 the cardiology fellow is called to the bedside by the nurse as the patient again complains about 4/10 chest pain. After this result he was given therapeutic enoxaparin. ng/mL (mildly elevated).