Podcast – Understanding Troponin – Part 1
A first in a podcast series from St Emlyn’s about troponins
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Cardiology
Cardiac Troponin: The basics from St. Emlyn’s
Do you remember when it took three days to ‘rule in’ or ‘rule out’ an acute myocardial infarction (AMI)? When I was a medical student doing my first clinical attachments,
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How accurate is clinical judgement for acute coronary syndromes?
This blog post is based on the paper published in the EMJ this week – Body R et al. Can emergency physicians rule in or rule out acute coronary syndromes
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Cardiology Case 04: An unusual ECG
Here we go with another Cardiology Case at St. Emlyn’s. If you haven’t already, check out the other cases in this series: Cardiology case 01 Cardiology case 02: ST depression, no
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The MACS Rule: Immediate ‘rule in’ and ‘rule out’ for suspected cardiac chest pain
This post is about a paper we published today in Heart – the result of more than 9 years of work – phew! Here’s a link to the paper (open
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Cardiology Case 03: Are you missing the STEMI? St. Emlyn’s
Look carefully at the ECG is your don’t want to miss a STEMI
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JC. ACS: Antiplatelets ACCOAST-ed?
Most people I talk to who work in Emergency or Acute Medicine hate chest pain. Personally I think they’re crazy but I can see where they’re coming from. Chest pain
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JC: I’ll just ask Dr Google..for some PE/ACS investigation advice @ St.Emlyn’s
OK folks, the debates around PE & ACS investigation over the last few years have been fantastic. Not only have they challenged our reliance on protocols, the debates have also
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