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Purpose This paper evaluates the long-term impact of a Canadian mass media campaign on general public beliefs about staying active when experiencing low back pain (LBP). Methods Changes in beliefs about staying active during an episode of LBP were studied using telephone and web-based surveys. Logistic regression analysis was used to investigate changes in beliefs over time and the effect of exposure...
These pocket guidelines on the management of arterial hypertension are a concise summary of the more extensive ones prepared by a Task Force jointly appointed by the European Society of Hypertension and the European Society of Cardiology.
Guidelines aim to present all the relevant evidence on a particular issue in order to help physicians to weigh the benefits and risks of a particular diagnostic or therapeutic procedure. They should be helpful in everyday clinical decision-making. To enable clinicians to access the key facts needed to aid in the decision making process at the point of care the ESC has developed pocket guidelines....
These guidelines aim to present management recommendations based on all of the relevant evidence on a particular subject in order to help physicians to select the best possible management strategy for the individual patient. The strength of evidence for or against particular procedures or treatments is weighted, according to predefined scales for grading recommendations and levels of evidence, as...
These are the first guidelines on the management of pericardial diseases to be published by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). These are actually the first official guidelines written on the subject worldwide. The main objective of this document is to present cardiologists with guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Pericardial Diseases, focusing on the most clinically relevant abnormalities.
The aim of this document is to provide practical guidelines for the diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure (HF). National health policy as well as clinical judgement may dictate the order of priorities in implementation. An evidence-based approach has been used to generate the grade of any recommendation in the guidelines, with an additional assessment of the quality...
Most cardiologists who care for adults have no or minimal experience with electrocardiograms (ECGs) recorded in infants. So far, this has had no practical implications because only seldom are they requested to examine a neonatal ECG. This situation, however, may change as some European countries have begun to consider the possibility of introducing in their National Health Services the performance...
Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a major health problem, and may present as a cardiovascular emergency. Occlusion of the pulmonary arterial bed by thrombus may lead to acute life-threatening, but potentially reversible, right ventricular failure in the most severe cases. Alternatively, the clinical presentation of PE may be non-specific, in cases where the pulmonary obstruction is less severe, or moderate.
Cardiovascular diseases during pregnancy represent a very heterogeneous group as regards the diseases involved and the risks related to pregnancy. Management is based on haemodynamic principles: full diagnosis of the maternal heart condition plus knowledge of the physiological changes in pregnancy. Likely outcome is determined by these. Good management depends on team work between local physicians...
Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice The European Heart Health Charter advocates the development and implementation of comprehensive health strategies, measures and policies at European, national, regional and local level that promote cardiovascular health and prevent cardiovascular disease.
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a relatively common genetic disorder (1∶500) defined by the presence of left ventricular hypertrophy in the absence of a cardiac or systemic cause. It is found in all races and affects men and women equally.
The reader should note that the recommendations, text, figures, and tables included in these pocket guidelines represent a succinct summary of the more extensive evidence base, critical evaluation, supporting text, tables, figures, and references that are included in the full text guidelines. Readers are strongly encouraged to refer to the full text guidelines.
Syncope is a transient loss of consciousness (T-LOC) due to transient global cerebral hypoperfusion characterized by rapid onset, short duration and spontaneous complete recovery.
Infective endocarditis (IE) is a severe form of valve disease still associated with a poor prognosis and high mortality, despite major advances in both diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. IE is a rare disease, with reported incidences ranging from 3 to 10 episodes/100,000 people per year.
The management of patients with pre-existing cardiovascular disease undergoing non-cardiac surgery presents the physician with additional challenges. These guidelines provide recommendations for optimal management strategies for patients presenting with cardiovascular conditions.
The ESC Committee for Practice Guidelines (CPG) supervises and coordinates the preparation of new Guidelines and Expert Consensus Documents produced by Task Forces, expert groups, or consensus panels. The chosen experts in these writing panels are asked to provide disclosure statements of all relationships they may have, which might be perceived as real or potential conflicts of interest. These disclosure...
As a result of the success of paediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery over the last 3 decades, there will shortly be more adults than children with congenital heart disease. The need to reintegrate paediatric and adult cardiac services, and in particular to provide smooth “transition” for adolescents is clear.
The guidelines for the appropriate use of pacemaker devices presented in this document, a joint ESC and EHRA initiative, aim to provide for the first time in Europe an up to date specialists’ view of the field. The guidelines cover two main areas: the first includes permanent pacing in bradyarrhythmias, syncope, and other specific conditions, while the second refers to ventricular resynchronization...
These guidelines aim to present management recommendations based on all of the relevant evidence on a particular subject in order to help physicians to select the best possible management strategy for the individual patient. The strength of evidence for or against particular procedures or treatments is weighed, according to predefined scales for grading recommendations and levels of evidence, as outlined...
Detection of rise and/or fall of troponin (I or T) with at least one value above the 99th percentile of a control group measured with a coefficient of variation = 10%.
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