Tag: Cardiac

  • Chest pain

    Chest pain

    A few figures help to understand the problem that occurs most often in an emergency context: – Chest pain represents about 5% of the chief complaints in the emergency services; – Allowed to leave their homes nearly 5% of patients with chest pain is related to acute coronary symptom; – Pulmonary embolism is one of…

  • Treatment of heart failure in adults

    Treatment of heart failure in adults

    With 120,000 new cases per year, heart failure (HF) has become a major public health problem, which is growing with the aging of the population. It is characterized by the presence of functional symptoms (shortness of breath, fatigue, etc.) related to a disorder of cardiac function objectified by ultrasound imaging, radiological or isotopic. The IC…