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 ...

Q: My mother is 83 and has sharp pain under her left breast and along her back on the left side. At times the pain is so intense that she refuses to eat. She has seen her family doctor and has had ...

Two protocols for quickly and safely evaluating patients presenting to emergency departments with chest pain are being adopted by Australian hospitals. Chest pain is one of the most common reasons ...

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A semi-automatic phone triage system designed to help people with chest discomfort during the out of hours period is unsafe and unreliable, according to research published in the journal Open Heart.