Clinicians should not restrict access to basic information

preface: access to basic data

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What Clinicians Should Know

Case presentation: A 36-year-old nonsmoking, normotensive South Asian man presented to the emergency department of a community hospital with retrosternal chest pain of 60 minutes’ duration. His 12-lead ECG demonstrated 10 mm of STsegment elevation in leads V2 through V6, and he received fibrinolytic therapy within 90 minutes of symptom onset. His pain resolved, but his ST segments only partiall...

Basic Science for Clinicians

Cardiac arrhythmias are a major epidemiological and public health problem and contribute significantly to sudden cardiac death, heart failure, stroke, suffering, debilitation, and healthcare expenses. In the United States alone, sudden cardiac death is estimated to kill 250 000 to 400 000 people annually.1 Most sudden death is due to cardiac arrhythmias,2 with ventricular tachycardia and fibril...

Unruptured intracranial aneurysms: why clinicians should not resort to epidemiologic studies to justify interventions.

Basic Science for Clinicians

605 The earliest description of calcific aortic stenosis is attributed to the French physician Lazare Rivière who, in 1663, reported the necropsy findings from a patient with palpitations, progressive dyspnea, and loss of peripheral pulses. He noted left ventricular enlargement and identified large caruncle-like masses obstructing the left ventricular outflow to the aorta. Although other report...