What Time Should You Check Your Blood Pressure?
ConclusionBest Time To Check Blood Pressure
Many experts recommend that you check your blood pressure at least twice a day. This could be once in the morning and again at night.
Doctors normally suggest checking your blood pressure at least twice a year. But there are other times when it may be worth checking.
If you have anxiety or experience high blood pressure episodes lasting more than two hours.
If you have shortness of breath, chest pain, rapid heart rate, sweating, lightheadedness, nausea or vomiting, consult your doctor immediately.
Choosing A Time That Works For You
You can check your blood pre...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 11, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Kutryk Tags: Guides Blood Pressure Source Type: blogs
Caffeine in Coffee: How Does It Affect Your Blood Pressure?
Coffee is a daily essential to kick-start most people’s days. But did you know caffeine in coffee can affect blood pressure in hypertensive patients?
With its annual consumption of nearly 8.6 billion kgs, coffee is a must-have for most people. If you regularly enjoy a cup of java, you must be familiar with the energetic buzz that sets in shortly after your first sips.
For some, even just the aroma of coffee is enough to give you a boost. However, scientists often debate whether drinking coffee regularly benefits your cardiovascular health and blood pressure, or the opposite.
Find out if your daily cup of cof...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 8, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Kutryk Tags: Guides Blood Pressure Source Type: blogs
Home Remedies for High Blood Pressure
Lower high blood pressure with these effective home remedies that are easy to apply, whether you’re dealing with mild or more severe cases of the condition.
If you’re searching for natural ways to lower your blood pressure, a few home remedies may help.
From making some lifestyle changes to eating mindfully, these tips can help you get your numbers down.
Talk to your doctor before trying new treatments, and read for more information.
Quick Summary
Regular exercise can help lower blood pressure by making the heart stronger and more efficient.
The DASH diet is a tried-and-tested eating pa...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 1, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: bpscore-sibera Tags: Guides Blood Pressure Source Type: blogs
From Coffee Beans to Medical Disease: A Suggestion to Spend Your Gap Years
Through my journey to find a haven for studying as well as easy access to caffeine, staying at coffee shops became my tradition in preparation for all of my classes as both an undergraduate and medical student. To this day, my best work comes amid the backdrop of ambient chatter and the grinding of espresso beans. At one point, I spent so much time at my coffee shop that the baristas knew my order (white tea with peach juice and stevia!), readied my drink before I walked in, and even invited me to after-work outings.
After spending hours studying, I always wondered what it was like working behind the counter to create l...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - October 31, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Laura Siegel Source Type: blogs
Back to basics: what is this rhythm? What are your options for treating this patient?
Written by Bobby Nicholson MD, with edits by Meyers, Smith, GrauerA woman in her early 40s presented to the emergency department for evaluation of palpitations. She reported that she has been experiencing this since she was diagnosed with COVID a little over 1 week ago. She reported a prior history of SVT and has previously performed vagal maneuvers at home with symptom resolution. She reports that she is now unable to vagal out of her palpitations and is having shortness of breath and dull chest pain. Her initial EKG is below.We see a regular tachycardia with a narrow QRS complex and no evidence of OMI or subend...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - October 25, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
The Drink That Lowers Heart Disease Risk By One-Third
Drinking 2 cups of this a day could lower the risk of heart disease by a third. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - October 18, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: Caffeine Heart Disease Source Type: blogs
What is inappropriate sinus tachycardia? Cardiology Basics
Inappropriate sinus tachycardia (IST) is sinus tachycardia inappropriate to the situation. It is defined as sinus rates above 100 beats per minute at rest or average sinus rate above 90 beats per minute over 24 hours without an underlying cause. Important secondary causes of sinus tachycardia like the use of caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, drugs of abuse like cocaine, increased function of thyroid gland, fever, anxiety, pain, and other illnesses which can increase the heart rate have to be excluded before considering IST.
IST may be either asymptomatic or sometimes associated with palpitation, shortness of breath, near synco...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 9, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
What is a nuclear stress test? Cardiology Basics
Usual stress test for the evaluation of coronary artery disease is a treadmill exercise ECG. It is commonly part of general health check-up and is widely available. But there are certain situations when the exercise ECG is not interpretable as in a person with left bundle branch block. Then a nuclear stress test will be useful.
While exercise ECG tells you that there is a probability of obstructions in coronary arteries, it most often does not identify the region of myocardium supplied by the obstructed vessel.
Nuclear stress test will tell you which is the region of myocardium that is affected. If there is already signif...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 9, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Coffee good for heart health – Large study
Coffee good for heart health – Large study
Usually physicians, including me, ask patients with cardiovascular disease to avoid coffee, especially for those with cardiac arrhythmia [1]. Now, here is a study which says that taking 2-3 cups of decaffeinated, ground or instant coffee a day is associated with significant reductions in incident cardiovascular disease and mortality. Even more, ground and instant coffee, but not decaffeinated coffee was associated with reduced arrhythmia [2].
In fact, coffee consumption at 3-4 cups per day has been described as probably not harmful and perhaps even moderately beneficial in t...
Source: Cardiophile MD - September 30, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Drinking coffee before shopping can lead to impulse buying
By Emily Reynolds
Those wanting to eat more healthily and save money are often advised not to go food shopping while hungry, the theory being that we make less prudent purchases when we’re more concerned with satisfying our immediate needs than thinking about long term goals. But how do other states of mind affect our purchases?
We’d probably not think anything of having a cup of coffee or a can of Coke before going shopping. But a new study, published in the Journal of Marketing, finds that caffeine may have a bigger impact than we think, with participants spending more and buying more things after a caffeinate...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - June 29, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Drugs Eating Source Type: blogs
Lifestyle Medicine Could Be The Key To Digital Health Adoption
I’ve been wearing several generations and types of smartwatches for a couple of years and I only remove my watch when I shower. I use it to track my sleep and its smart alarm wakes me up at the optimal time every morning. With the pocketable Kardia, I regularly check my ECG at home to detect any anomalies. For an in-depth analysis of what my genetic makeup predisposes me to, I had my whole genome sequenced. And I bring relevant data to my general practitioner during my checkups so that we can decide on preventive measures. In short, I’m trying to live like the patient of the future, using lifestyle medicine to prev...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Lifestyle medicine E-Patients Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Medical Education Personalized Medicine sleep stress food scanner sleep apnea Apple Watch Dr. Vernes Baylor ACLM Source Type: blogs
A 40-something without past history presents with wide complex tachycardia and crushing chest pain
See Ken Grauer ' s important and detailed ECG analysis at the bottom.CaseA 40-something with no PMH presented with palpitations, tachycardia, and crushing chest pain.This was the prehospital ECG.Sustained wide complex tachycardia. Is it VT or SVT with Aberrancy?Also: there is no concordant ST segments or clearly excessively discordant ST segments, so superimposed Occlusion MI (OMI) is unlikely.There is a regular wide complex tachycardia, without P-waves, and anLBBB configuration andinferior axis. [LBBB "configuration" is different from LBBB: it means that there is a predominant S-wave in V1 and V2 and...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - February 14, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
Coffee can ’t fix all the cognitive impairments caused by a bad night’s sleep
In this study, the participants had to keep track of where they were in a seven-step screen-based task. The participants were initially trained in how to complete the steps correctly, in the right order, and then expected to remember this information. Every so often, they were interrupted part-way through a sequence and asked to complete another brief task. They then went back to the original task. To resume correctly, and complete the steps in the right order, they had to remember where they’d broken off. The researchers counted the number of mistakes that they made.
After this, some participants were sent home to sl...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - January 19, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Drugs Sleep and dreaming Source Type: blogs
Toothache, incidental Wide Complex Tachycardia
Discussion by our ElectrophysiologistSmith: “I thought that the wide complex tachy (WCT) could be AVRT or VT” EP: " Antidromic AVRT morphology would essentially be the same as “VT” originating from ventricular the insertion site of the accessory pathway. Therefore, traditional criteria for SVT with aberrancy do not apply to antidromic AVRT (except, that negative concordance can never be AVRT!) " Smith: “But then when the patient converted and had PVCs of exactly the same morphology as the WCT, that it must be VT and not AVRT ” EP: " In cases of intermittent pre-excitation, you cou...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - November 17, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
