Archive for October 2013
Cardioversion in Pregnancy: Is it Safe?
Cardiac arrhythmias occur in 1.2 per 1000 pregnant patients, the most common being AV re-entry tachycardias, atrial tachycardia and atrial fibrillation(1) In patients where pharmacological therapy doesn’t work, or the patient becomes haemodynamically unstable, electricity is the treatment of choice. It works. ………. What about pregnancy? Can we use it in the same way? Is…
Read MoreYou take your eye off the ball for one moment and the next thing you know…………
After 16 years of trying, just when I thought I was starting to get the hang of the interpretation of an ECG in the context of chest pain, They move the goalposts. In this case “They” are the Writing Group on behalf of the Joint ESC/ACCF/AHA/WHF Task Force for the Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction.…
Read MoreThe Killer Rash That Wasn’t
A little more relaxed with this blog….but it is soo important. William Osler, is one of my heroes in medicine. He said “More is missed by not looking than by not knowing”. The one thing I teach in Clinical Examination is that we must examine and think as we do so and put it together,…
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