Based at the University Hospitals of Leicester, we serve the educational needs of healthcare practitioners in Acute & Emergency Medicine across the East Midlands, UK
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This week is a quick visual reminder when remembering the basics of chest x-rays in adults. It’s as simple as DRS-ABDCE!
Angina is pain (or constricting discomfort) in the chest, neck, shoulders, jaw, or arms caused by an insufficient blood supply to the myocardium.
Cocaine stimulates alpha and beta-adrenergic receptors resulting in increased myocardial oxygen demand and decreased myocardial perfusion – resulting in chest pain.
Wellens Syndrome describes two patterns of deeply inverted or biphasic T-waves in V2 and V3. Over time T-wave changes can evolve from one pattern to the other.
Every week 12 young people in the UK die unexpectedly from a heart condition they didn’t know they had…
Not all asthmatics will need admission and appropriate management in the ED can enable safe discharge.
21-year-old female brought in by ambulance. Acute onset DIB, tachycardic & tachypnoeic, pre-alerted as ?sepsis
