London Trauma Conference Day 2
London Trauma Conference 2013 – Day 2 by Dr Louisa Chan So I find myself torn today: do I join […]
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Enoxaparin beats heparin for PCI
This is of interest to those of us in retrieval medicine, for logistic reasons: an infusion of heparin can be […]
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Which cardiac arrest survivors have a positive angio?
A retrospective study of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients attended by a French pre-hospital system was performed to assess the predictive […]
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Delayed door-to-balloon even with helicopters
For a whole bunch of reasons, patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction who undergo interhospital transfer for primary percutaneous coronary intervention […]
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Balloon pump before PCI? Nah.
High risk patients benefit from pre-operative intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation (IABP) prior to coronary artery bypass surgery. Would the same apply […]
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PCI and therapeutic hypothermia
Percutaneous coronary intervention did not increase the risk of dysrhythmia, infection, coagulopathy, or hypotension associated with therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac […]