Note the initial jugular venous pulse level. Put your right palm and fingers just below the right costal margin and gently push down for about thirty seconds while noting the JVP during several ...

Read this article to learn how to conduct an advanced cardiovascular assessment to reveal heart abnormalities and associated symptoms and risk factors. Cardiovascular disease remains one of the ...

A smartphone application using the phone's camera function performed better than traditional physical examination to assess blood flow in a wrist artery for patients undergoing coronary angiography, ...

Phil Jevon, PGCE, BSc, RN, is resuscitation officer/clinical skills lead and honorary clinical lecturer, University of Birmingham Medical School Subscribe today for unlimited access to 6,000+ clinical ...

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden can now show that a new examination method identifies high-risk plaques in the blood vessels surrounding the heart, that cannot be seen solely with traditional ...

The primary purpose of the cardiac examination is to assess the structure and function of the heart as a muscular pump and to evaluate it for possible malfunctions. Because heart disease is so common ...