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The ECG in the Figure was obtained from a 73-year-old man with documented coronary disease and heart failure. He now presents with a 10-day history of dyspnea. How would you interpret his ECG?
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Thomson American Health Consultants is happy to announce that we are opening up our Primary Care Reports author process to our readers. A biweekly newsletter with approximately 5000 readers, each issue is a fully referenced, peer-reviewed monograph.
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Influenza Vaccination and Reduction in Hospitalizations; Screening Men
for Prostate and Colorectal Cancer; Weight Loss in CHF and Treatment
with ACE-I; Impaired Fasting Glucose vs Impaired Glucose Tolerance;
Risk Stratification in Long-QT Syndrome; EBCT, Motivation, Behavioral
Change, and Cardiovascular Risk Profile
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This review will provide an overview of SARS for the primary care physician, including epidemiology, etiology, review of the clinical and laboratory features as well as diagnosis, therapy, and prevention of SARS.
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The Women's Health Initiatives was halted a year ago, but fallout
from this landmark study continues. The study was designed to identify
the risks or benefits of estrogen plus progesterone vs placebo in
healthy postmenopausal women.
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Lipid-lowering therapy reduces stroke incidence in coronary patients, especially when total cholesterol level is lowered to less than 232 mg/dL (6.0 mmol/L), which explains the best results being obtained with statins.
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Computer keyboards may serve as reservoirs for serious nosocomial pathogens.
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Iontophoresis was more effective than placebo in relieving tennis elbow symptoms in the short term.
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Even in physician-diagnosed peptic ulcer disease, test-and-treat strategy for H pylori did not reduce costs, and use of acid-reducing medications remained very high.
