Coronary Artery Disease: Diagnosis and Management.

This review focuses on the outpatient assessment and management of coronary artery disease based on current guidelines and recommendations. The management of acute coronary syndrome and unstable angina is not included. Pharmacologic and nonpharmacotherapy options, including lifestyle modifications, are discussed with evidence to support recommendations and suggested management.

Strategies Used by Prehospital Providers to Overcome Language Barriers.

Objective: Language barriers are commonly encountered in the prehospital setting but there is a paucity of research on how prehospital providers address language discordance. We sought to identify the communication strategies, and the limitations of those strategies, used by emergency medical services (EMS) providers when confronted with language barriers in a variety of linguistic and cultural contexts.

Methods: EMS providers were queried regarding communication strategies to overcome language barriers as part of an international, multi-site, sequential explanatory, qualitative-predominant, mixed methods study of prehospital language barriers.