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- Published on: 29 April 2016
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- Published on: 29 April 2016recognition of non-diagnostic nature of the electrocardiogram in circumflex artery occlusionShow More
Even though the electrocardiogram(ECG) may be entirely non- diagnostic, and entirely innocent of any ST segment deviation in as many as 38% of patients with myocardial infarction attributable to left circumflex artery occlusion(1), clinical features that simply help to confirm the diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome(ACS(2))will have greater practical value, in this context, than in patients who have diagnostic ECG. The...
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None declared. - Published on: 29 April 2016The value of taking a history in patients with chest painShow More
In introducing Goodacre et al's paper on low risk chest pain patients, the Primary Survey of the December 2009 issue prompts emergency physicians to reflect on "why [they] take histories at all in this patient group".(1,2) This is, in our opinion, an inappropriate reaction to the results of the study. The patients under investigation were those with a potential diagnosis of a cardiac cause of chest pain, and according t...
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