“Which resuscitated patients benefit from PPCI after an out of hospital cardiac arrest?” .
A retrospective medical record review was conducted using an established methodological approach (Gearing et al, 2006)..
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a non-specific phrase used to describe diseases of the heart and circulation. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that CVD is the leading cause of death in...
This young man had recently taken up jogging. On the evening before his collapse he complained of a painful calf and presumed that he had pulled a muscle. The next morning when he awoke he still had...
The right ventricle works as a low-pressure volume pump, receiving blood from the systemic venous circulation and pumping it to the pulmonary arteries. Although it has the same stroke volume as the...
The mechanical action of GPI IIb/IIIa is inhibition of glycoprotein receptors IIb/IIIa (GPR IIb/IIIa) on the surface of platelets, preventing platelet aggregation (Figure 1). Activation causes changes...
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