Tag: acute coronary syndromes
Cardiology Case 05: Detective work
It’s been a while since we shared a cardiology case but here’s a cracker for you. As usual, see our Caveats and Cautions. While these cases are based on our genuine experiences (often pooling several …
Good times part 1: DIDO-30 for STEMI
STEMI is one of the true medical emergencies. We all know that the sooner our patient gets revascularisation, the better they do. We’ve known this for years. In a very nice meta-analysis, Eric Boersma showed …
The MACS rule: a new user-friendly version
This blog post is based on a paper we’ve just had published in the Emergency Medicine Journal entitled: ‘The Manchester Acute Coronary Syndromes (MACS) decision rule: validation with a new automated assay for heart-type fatty …
Is severe chest pain more likely to be a heart attack?
Have you ever heard this sort of conversation in your ED? Junior ED doc: Can I run my patient by you, please? Senior ED doc: Sure Junior: I have a 40 year old man with chest …
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 using clinical judgement? EMJ 2014 …
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 access), which reports how we …
