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Digoxin - ECG changes, arrhythmias, conduction defects & treatment

…rate) and also slows conduction over the atrioventricular (AV) node. The most classical ECG finding is generalized ST segment depressions with curved ST segment (generalized…

Digoxin: Dosing, Therapeutic Range and Toxicity Management

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

Vasospastic (Prinzmetal) Angina: Provocation Testing and Treatment

…part of a more generalized vasospastic syndrome with migraine or Raynaud phenomenon. Associations have also been described with aspirin induced asthma, 5 fluorouracil, and cyclophosphamide…

Status epilepticus: quick reference for emergency treatment

Neurologi Akutsjukvård Lathundar Definition and aims of treatment Convulsive status epilepticus in adults is present with: an ongoing generalised tonic clonic seizure lasting at least…

Anaphylaxis: quick reference for emergency management

…Treat as anaphylaxis in any of the following: 1. Acute onset of skin or mucosal symptoms , for example generalised urticaria, itching, flushing or angio oedema…

Edrophonium test

…AChR antibodies in about 80 % of generalised and around half of ocular myasthenia, thereafter MuSK and LRP4 antibodies) and on neurophysiology (repetitive nerve stimulation with…

Alcohol withdrawal and delirium tremens: quick reference

…a relatively clear level of consciousness and preserved orientation 12 to 48 hours Withdrawal seizures, usually generalised tonic clonic and sometimes several within a short…

Deceased donor organ donation

…any retrieval: it begins when someone in the intensive care unit identifies a possible donor and the deceased person's own wishes are properly established…

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