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PCSK9 Inhibitors: Indications, Efficacy and Access

…from cardiovascular disease. Pharmacological PCSK9 inhibition increases the effective availability of hepatic LDL receptors and thereby enhances LDL C removal from plasma. Two principal therapeutic…

Adenosine: Administration Technique, Dose Escalation and Precautions

…Consequently, shifts in the pacemaker site within the sinus node and sinus exit block may occur. In humans, adenosine initially slows the sinus rate, followed…

🟠 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 Figure 2, the wavelength is measured as the distance between two peaks. The wavelength of the sound waves of human speech is between 17…

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

…bite after 2 days, close to a joint or on the face amoxicillin–clavulanic acid 500/125 mg × 3 10 days Dog or human bite…

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…

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)…

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