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Chest Pain in the Emergency Department: Diagnostic Pathways

…is not specific for myocardial infarction. Other conditions may produce cardiomyocyte injury and elevated troponin, so biomarker interpretation must be integrated with the clinical history…

🟠 Hypertensive emergency (crisis) - Drugs, doses & management

…drug manual is provided for use in patients with hypertensive emergency (also referred to as hypertensive crisis or malignant hypertension ). Hypertensive emergency is defined as…

Hypertensive Emergency and Urgency: Differentiation and Treatment

…hypertensive emergency is severe blood pressure elevation accompanied by acute hypertension mediated target organ damage (HMOD). The European definition uses BP ≥180/110 mmHg with…

Hypertensive emergency (crisis)

…drug manual is provided for use in patients with hypertensive emergency (also referred to as hypertensive crisis or malignant hypertension ). Hypertensive emergency is defined as…

Anaphylaxis: quick reference for emergency management

…ones [5]. For acute clinical use the following simplification can be used: Grade Clinical picture Management : : : Mild allergic reaction Skin or mucosa only, stable breathing…

Drugs in the emergency setting

…maximum 0.5 mg For bradycardia with compromise Isoprenaline 0.02–0.15 µg/kg/min 0.02–0.1 µg/kg/min A bridge…

Hyperkalaemia: quick reference for emergency treatment

…hyperkalaemic ECG changes at any level Immediate emergency treatment, continuous ECG monitoring and early assessment of the need for dialysis ECG changes or serious neuromuscular…

Hypoglycaemia: quick reference for emergency management

Endokrinologi & metabolism Akutsjukvård Lathundar Emergency overview Measure the plasma glucose immediately in everyone with a reduced level of consciousness, seizures, confusion, a change in behaviour…

Atrial fibrillation: quick reference for emergency management

…contraindicated, for example in asthma Contraindicated in impaired left ventricular function and together with an intravenous beta blocker Digoxin In heart failure or hypotension, or…

Neutropenic fever: quick reference for emergency management

…The direct evidence for exactly one hour in neutropenic fever is limited, but delayed antibiotics are associated with a worse outcome in sepsis and in…

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