Background: Current guidelines suggest a role for clinical assessment of chest rise in determining adequacy of positive pressure ventilation (PPV). However, these guidelines do not state how chest ...

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Oct. 7, 2020 - Is this person with chest pain having a heart attack? That's a question EMTs frequently confront when responding to 911 calls. A study conducted at Wake Forest ...

Emergency physicians at Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente hospitals reduced admissions and cardiac stress testing by using new criteria to assess chest pain patients’ risk for subsequent cardiac ...

New UK recommendations for the assessment of chest pain are prioritizing the use of CT angiography in cases where a diagnosis of stable angina cannot be excluded on the basis of a clinical assessment ...

Chronological age is a primary method for assessing healthcare managers’ decisions regarding how to treat and care for ...

Definitive chemoradiation for oligometastatic esophageal cancer patients. PIONEER: A multicenter, open-label, randomized phase II trial of second-line apatinib plus chemotherapy versus chemotherapy ...

Background: Most Canadian emergency departments use an unstructured, individualized approach to patients with chest pain, without data to support the safety and efficiency of this practice. We sought ...

Synchronous lung metastasis occurs in less than 1% of patients with renal masses less than 4 cm in diameter, so chest imaging in these cases may be unwarranted, according to investigators. Renal mass ...