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Breathlessness - Management
Basis for recommendation
Clinical features of silent myocardial infarction
- These are based on evidence, from observational studies, that is summarized in an expert review of the clinical features of people with confirmed myocardial infarction presenting without chest pain [Wong and White, 2002].
Clinical features of cardiac arrhythmia
- These are based on expert observation reported in the Oxford textbook of medicine [Cobbe et al, 2010].
- The ECG features of SVT are based on expert observation reported in The ECG in practice [Hampton, 2008].
Clinical features of pulmonary oedema
Clinical features of chronic heart failure
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