Articles & courses

ArticlesShow all 14
🟠 Drug-Induced Cardiotoxicity

DICTrank: The Largest Reference List of 1318 Human Drugs Ranked by Risk of Drug Induced Cardiotoxicity Using FDA Labeling . Drug Discovery Today. 2023. DICT =…

Myocardial Ischemia & infarction: Cellular changes, ECG and symptoms

…and infarction Myocardial ischemia: cellular changes, ECG signs and development of infarction Like all other cells in the human body, cardiac myocytes use ATP (adenosine…

Physics of ultrasound

…in 1 second). If a sound wave has 1000 Hz, then 1000 wave cycles pass every second. Audible sound and ultrasound The human ear can…

Wound suturing

…or a dressing alone. Contraindications Primary closure must be avoided or considered carefully in: Bite wounds — particularly cat and human bites, and all bites on…

Empirical antibiotic therapy: quick reference for common infections

…3 IV Pneumonia, in chronic lung disease amoxicillin 750 mg × 3 PO 5–7 days or benzylpenicillin 3 g × 4 IV Pneumonia, suspected atypical pathogen…

A new ECG biomarker for sudden cardiac death

…and generalizability. Deep learning offers a way around this: an ECG can be fed directly into a classifier with no human feature extraction, in principle…

PCSK9 Inhibitors: Indications, Efficacy and Access

…abdominal aortic aneurysmal disease remains an emerging area of research. Pharmacological Classes and Mechanisms Monoclonal Antibodies Evolocumab and alirocumab are fully human monoclonal antibodies that…

Cardiac arrest during sepsis

…M, Skalski J. Successful resuscitation from accidental hypothermia of 11.8 degrees C: where is the lower bound for human beings? Eur J Cardiothorac Su

Hemodynamic principles and calculations

…= [c · (f r f e )] / [2 · f u · cos ϴ] The speed of sound (c) in the human body is constant (1540 m/s)…

Pulsed Wave Doppler

…pulsed wave Doppler). Pulse repetition frequency (PRF) The number of ultrasound pulses sent per second is called pulse repetition frequency (PRF) . PRF is determined by…

Media

No matches.

Tests

Tools