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Digoxin - ECG changes, arrhythmias, conduction defects & treatment

…The most classical ECG finding is generalized ST segment depressions with curved ST segment (generalized implies that the depressions may occur in most ECG leads…

Digoxin: Dosing, Therapeutic Range and Toxicity Management

…include headache, nausea, vomiting, generalized malaise, and visual disturbances such as altered color perception and halo vision. Cardiac toxicity presents as various arrhythmias, ranging from…

Vasospastic (Prinzmetal) Angina: Provocation Testing and Treatment

…frequently in East Asian populations. VA can occur as part of a more generalized vasospastic syndrome with migraine or Raynaud phenomenon. Associations have also been…

Status epilepticus: quick reference for emergency treatment

…rising lactate, acidosis, hypertension and tachycardia are common during a generalised seizure. In prolonged status the initial sympathetic response can give way to hypotension, hypoxia…

Anaphylaxis: quick reference for emergency management

…for example generalised urticaria, itching, flushing or angio oedema, together with at least one of the following: airway compromise respiratory compromise circulatory compromise severe gastrointestinal…

Edrophonium test

…import) product, and the diagnosis instead rests on antibody analysis (AChR antibodies in about 80 % of generalised and around half of ocular myasthenia, thereafter MuSK…

Alcohol withdrawal and delirium tremens: quick reference

…particularly in patients with marked tolerance. The most important measures in severe or complicated withdrawal are: 1. A benzodiazepine in a sufficient and repeated dose…

Deceased donor organ donation

…withdrawal of treatment to circulatory arrest Indications An intensive care patient with severe brain injury in whom total brain infarction is judged possible during ongoing…

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