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Making Sense of Sgarbossa’s Criteria – Chest Pain and Left Bundle Branch Block – Part 3

In this final part of the series I’d like to talk about Smith’s modification to Sgarbossa’s criteria (PDF) and the importance of serial ECGs. If you recall there are two

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Making Sense of Sgarbossa’s Criteria – Chest Pain and Left Bundle Branch Block – Part 2

In Part 1 of this series we discussed why left bundle branch block presents a dilemma for clinicians who provide care for patients who suffer chest pain (or other signs

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Making Sense of Sgarbossa’s Criteria – Chest Pain and Left Bundle Branch Block – Part 1

Left Bundle Branch Block Left bundle branch block presents a dilemma for many clinicians in the evaluation of chest pain (or other signs and symptoms of ACS) and it’s easy

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The Rise of FOAM in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care

Over the past 20 years the internet has spawned a huge number of blogs, podcasts, videos and wikis on a countless number of topics and emergency medicine has been no

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Heart Disease is Biggest Killer in US

Every year, more Americans die of cardiovascular diseases than died in the entire Second World War and it kills more people than all forms of cancer combined. One out of