Shared Decision Making
Mayo Clinic’s Shared Decision Making Tool for ASA and Statins (web site) – The Mayo clinic houses this central page of resources (including a number of risk calculators and decision aids) to be used in conversations with patients surrounding the decision to initiate ASA or a statin for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease
Mayo Clinic’s Statin Choice Decision Aid (web site) – Direct link to an interactive tool you can use with patients to show them pictorally the impact of starting statins on their future risk for developing cardiovascular disease
Dyslipidemia
2013 ACC/AHA Cardiovascular Risk Treatment Algorithm (png)
2013 ACC/AHA Cardiovascular Risk Calculator (pdf) – Used to identify 10-yr risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in adult patients
Medical College of Wisconsin’s online Coronary Heart Disease Risk Calculator (web site) – Used to identify 10-yr risk of developing coronary heart disease in adults age 30-74, based on the Framingham Heart Study.
ATP-III Cholesterol Guidelines Quick Desk Reference (pdf)
University of Michigan Statin Conversion Chart (web site) – Equivalent dosages of statins
Hypertension
JNC8 Reference Card (pdf) – Reference page with treatment goals by age and disease condition and an overall treatment algoritm.
JNC7 Reference Card (pdf) – 2-page reference pdf with stages of HTN, treatment goals by disease condition and specific medications recommended by condition, and an overall treatment algoritm.
QTc Prolongation
List of Drugs Which Can Cause QTc Prolongation (web site) – Comprehensive list of drugs which prolong the QTc interval *and* increase the risk of Torsades de Pointes. Site maintained by ArizonaCERT/Credible Meds.
Anti-Coagulation
HAS-BLED Score (MDCalc web site) – Risk algorithm used to weigh the risks of major bleeding to determine if a patient with atrial fibrillation should be placed on anti-coagulation
University of Michigan coumadin dose adjustment algorithm (web site)
Global RPh web site INR goals (web site)
Global RPh Warfarin dose adjustments (web site)
Stroke Risk Calculators
CHADS2 Score (MDCalc web site) – Calculator for determining risk of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation
CHA2DS2-VASc Score (MDCalc web site) – Calculator for determining risk of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation
QStroke Score (web site) – Novel risk algorithm for stroke in patients without previous stroke/TIA resulting from a UK-based cohort study involving patients from ~450 general practice offices in England and Wales (first published in BMJ / May 2013)
Reference Bookshelf
ECG Wave-Maven – Quiz yourself or review example ECGs by diagnosis.
ECGpedia– Take a free online ECG course, review a free online ECG textbook, download a free ECG pocket guide, or test yourself with cases and sample ECGs.
ECG Basics– Quick reference page for ECG basics
The Auscultation Assistant – Listen to audio files of different types of heart murmurs, rubs, and gallops/
Blaufuss Heart Sounds Test – Test yourself by listening to audio files of different types of heart murmurs and watching video of corresponding carotid pulsations. See if you can detect the murmur!