Senior Paramedic, East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust; Senior Lecturer, University of Hertfordshire; and part-time MSc Cardiology student, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Digoxin has a very narrow therapeutic margin between toxicity and efficacy, which results in a high incidence of digoxin toxicity (Larsen, 2009). To avoid toxicity, digoxin dosage must be adjusted...
Massive acute pulmonary emboli (PE) is a reversible cause of cardiac arrest, with thrombolysis being the first line of treatment (British Thoracic Society, 2003). Occlusion of pulmonary blood flow is...