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Cardiac failure is no more….

12/03/2025 by Bob Dunn

All references to cardiac failure have now been changed to heart failure.

Categories Updates Tags Cardiology
US of B lines
Non thrombotic embolism

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Contributors
Associate Professor Robert Dunn

Previous contributors
Associate Professor Meredith Borland
Dr Deborah O'Brien
Dr Stuart Dilley
Dr Jennifer Brookes
Associate Professor Deborah Leach

Formula of the day

K+ replacement rate - maximum 40 mmol/hour (0.5 mmol/kg/hour in children). Cardiac monitoring required if > 15 mmol/hour (> 0.4 mmol/kg/hour in children)

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Drug company sponsored studies may produce meaningful results, objectively interpreted, with sound conclusions, but the odds are heavily against it.

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