Volume 1 • Issue 2 • Winter 2015
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Managing Heart Failure Patients with Multivessel Disease – Coronary Artery Bypass Graft versus Percutaneous Coronary Intervention John Pepper
Cellular Communications in the Heart Katerina Fountoulaki, Nikolaos Dagres and Efstathios K Iliodromitis
Shock Management for Cardio-surgical ICU Patients – The Golden Hours Till Hauffe, Bernard Krüger, Dominique Bettex and Alain Rudiger
Patient Self-management in Chronic Heart Failure – Establishing Concordance Between Guidelines and Practice Samia R Toukhsati, Andrea Driscoll and David L Hare
Jugular venous distension Prevalence 39–52 % Sensitiviy 39% Specificity 78 %
Third heart sound Prevalence 11–41 % Sensitivity 13 % Specificity 99 %
Haemodynamic disturbance SBP < 90 mmHg 5–10 % SBP 90–140 mmHg 42–46 % SBP > 140 mmHg 44–50 % Peripheral oedema Prevalence 27–68 % Sensitivity 51 % Specificity 76 %
Pleural effusion seen using the liver as an acoustic window
Clinical assessment in Doppler Pulmonary crepitations acute heart failure echocardiography Prevalence 64–71 % of60diastole Sensitivity % Specificity
78 %
Radcliffe Cardiology
Lifelong Learning for Cardiovascular Professionals
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