Key points A 68-year-old woman from rural Ontario arrived at her local emergency department with worsening palpitations. Her medical history included breast cancer treated with surgical resection and ...
The immediate past Chief Medical Director of LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Prof. O. G. Opadijo, is a consultant cardiologist and expert in cardiology medicine. In this interview by ...
This ECG has a narrow QRS complex initally, then a fast heart rate, regular rhythm and no identifiable P wave activity which suddenly turns to a wide complex in a left bundle branch block pattern. The ...
Not all atrial flutters demonstrate the typical "sawtooth" pattern. During the times of lesser conduction on this ECG, the flutter waves are more apparent. The atrial rate is organized at a rate of ...
Editor’s note: The EKG Detective will be a monthly column dedicated to illustrating the benefits of utilizing deductive logic as a method for interpreting ECG tracings. The column will highlight and ...
In the fire service, we enjoy using abbreviations and acronyms for things. Now within the context of this article, when I say fire service, I am considering all the different types of responses a ...
Arterial Compliance,Atrial Function,Cardiac Output,Ejection Fraction,Elastic Function,Elastic Model,End-diastolic Volume,Healthy Heart,Heart Failure,Isovolumic ...
Macrophages are essential immune cells involved in pathogen clearance, initiation and resolution of inflammation, and tissue repair across multiple organ systems. They exhibit remarkable phenotypic ...