Consequently, these guidelines continue to recommend a “phone first” approach for adult victims and children ≥8 years old and a “phone fast” approach for unresponsive victims <8 years old. However, ...

Cardiac auscultation is the key screening procedure to detect and identify cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). One of many steps to automatically detect CVDs using auscultation, concerns the detection and ...

Different diagnostic rules and algorithms to diagnose non-acute heart failure do exist and all of them incorporate natriuretic peptides. 5–8 However, since natriuretic peptide levels increase with age ...