Adult Emergency Medicine

I very much didn't like doing cardioversions, or pacing until I actually did them! I still find it difficult to remember the numbers, so...

Syncope is common, and difficult to investigate because by definition, the patient has recovered from the event! It is summarised here . Th...

Orthostatic syncope (10%) is defined as an orthostatic drop of >20mm systolic blood pressure or >10 mm diastolic blood pressure. This ...

There are lots of cardiac causes of syncope, and they account for 10 - 30% of syncopal episodes. Cardiac causes include: arrhythmias, cardia...

This is one of the most common causes of syncope, estimated at 35-50%, and about 30% of people have survived at least one faint - and many ...

"Understand pacemakers and their failure" - what a broad statement to put in a syllabus. Luckily, some excellent resources exist...

My attempt to cover all of the curriculum in ST4/ST5, ready to revise in ST6 is doomed to failure. I'm going to set myself the target of...