Best management comes from good clinical assessment and judgement

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Best management comes from good clinical assessment and judgement

Chris Ellis

Chris Ellis

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Your patient has been experiencing shortness of breath while working on his dairy farm

Consultant cardiologist Chris Ellis gets to the bottom of a patient’s tiredness, shortness of breath and ankle swelling, via consideration of his cardiovascular risk, lung disease, medications and electrocardiogram

Key points, A right bundle branch block pattern on an electrocardiogram has many potential causes, but can also be an innocent finding. An RBBB pattern can occu, Pract Green w Pale Yellow