How Dangerous is Pulmonary Embolism?
How Dangerous is Pulmonary Embolism? The diagnosis and management of pulmonary embolism(PE), like most things…
Dr Peter Kas19/01/2023
Amiodarone vs Procainamide for Ventricular Tachycardia
The PROCAMIO Study(1) This was a randomised (non-blinded) open labelled study. 62 haemodynamically stable patients…
How to Read the ECG
Reading the ECG, is one of the most important skills in Medicine. We are expected…
Dr Peter Kas06/09/2023
Is Ventricular Bigeminy Benign? Which Patients Need treatment?
Introduction What do you do with the patient that has ventricular bigeminy? Is it benign?…
Dr Peter Kas27/06/2019
Thoracic Aortic Dissection: 5 things to make the diagnosis
CASE A 70 year old man, is brought to the Emergency Department by ambulance. He…
Dr Peter Kas27/06/2019
The ECG of Pulmonary Embolism
There are several distinct ECG patterns in pulmonary embolism A CASE A 36 yo male presents…
Dr Peter Kas09/12/2019
How To Read The Paediatric ECG
Below is an ECG taken of a 0ne week old infant, who has some shortness…
Dr Peter Kas27/06/2019
Wolff-Parkinson-White
Introduction Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome occurs in about 0.3% of the population (1), although this is an…
Dr Peter Kas01/02/2023
A New way to perform Valsalva for Supraventricular Tachycardia(SVT)
Last month, August 25th, the REVERT Trial was published in the LANCET. This study used…
Dr Peter Kas20/01/2023
De Winter’s T waves
De Winter's T Waves were first described by De Winter in an article to the editor…
Dr Peter Kas02/02/2023
Pericarditis, Benign Early Depolarisation or STEMI
Differentiating between Pericarditis, Benign Early Depolarisation and ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction can sometimes be difficult.…
Dr Peter Kas27/06/2019
A New Way to Give Adenosine in SVT
I've been speaking and writing about Supra Ventricular Tachycardia(SVT) a lot recently. Perhaps because of…
Dr Peter Kas08/11/2024
Electrolytes and the Heart
I was talking to a group of my junior registrars the other day about cardiac…
Dr Peter Kas27/06/2019
Supraventricular Tachycardia(SVT) in Infants
A mother brings her 7 month old son to the Emergency Department, as he has…
Dr Peter Kas11/01/2023
The HEART Score for sorting Low Risk Chest Pain Patients
The patient with chest pain is the most common presentation to Emergency Departments. And certainly…
Dr Peter Kas13/11/2024
Chest Pain: How Sure Are We at Predicting?
Here’s a scary problem …. If I was a paramedic, not an emergency physician with…
Dr Peter Kas08/04/2022
