Is this person with chest pain having a heart attack? That's a question EMTs frequently confront when responding to 911 calls. A study conducted at Wake Forest Baptist Health shows that on-scene use ...

Background: Current guidelines suggest a role for clinical assessment of chest rise in determining adequacy of positive pressure ventilation (PPV). However, these guidelines do not state how chest ...

Two protocols for quickly and safely evaluating patients presenting to emergency departments with chest pain are being adopted by Australian hospitals. Chest pain is one of the most common reasons ...

Assess associations between vitamin D levels and other risk factors on future chest illness in a chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) cohort. Members of our group previously studied a chronic SCI cohort ...

New UK recommendations for the assessment of chest pain are prioritizing the use of CT angiography in cases where a diagnosis of stable angina cannot be excluded on the basis of a clinical assessment ...

BEDFORD PARK, AUSTRALIA — Use of high-sensitivity troponin T (hs-TnT) assays, compared with standard TnT assays, may result in only modest improvement in evaluating emergency-department patients with ...

ATLANTA, Georgia — With minimal training, internal medicine house staff can successfully use hand-held ultrasound devices in the diagnosis of acute dyspnea, according to a new report. Ravindra Rajmane ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “The HEART score... provides the physician with a formal recommendation for admission, observation or discharge ...

Definitive chemoradiation for oligometastatic esophageal cancer patients. PIONEER: A multicenter, open-label, randomized phase II trial of second-line apatinib plus chemotherapy versus chemotherapy ...

Synchronous lung metastasis occurs in less than 1% of patients with renal masses less than 4 cm in diameter, so chest imaging in these cases may be unwarranted, according to investigators. Renal mass ...

Low-Grade Stage III-IV Follicular Lymphoma: Multivariate Analysis of Prognostic Factors in 484 Patients—A Study of the Groupe d'Etude des Lymphomes de l'Adulte PURPOSE: In Hodgkin's disease (HD), ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Oct. 7, 2020 - Is this person with chest pain having a heart attack? That's a question EMTs frequently confront when responding to 911 calls. A study conducted at Wake Forest ...