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Dix–Hallpike test and Epley manoeuvre

…for treatment. Contraindications Absolute: Unstable cervical spine injury, recent cervical spine surgery, atlantoaxial instability, severe rheumatoid arthritis of the neck. Symptomatic carotid stenosis, recent stroke…

Endotracheal intubation

…intubation. A difficult airway is anticipated in a stable patient — awake fibreoptic intubation or anaesthetic back up is then the right course, not RSI. Assess…

Post-Infarction Pericarditis and Dressler Syndrome

…interval of several weeks, improvement with anti inflammatory treatment, and the tendency to recur all support an immunopathological mechanism. The precise cause, however, is not…

Opioid therapy in severe pain

…excreted metabolite that causes late sedation and respiratory depression Marked liver failure A reduced dose of all of them, at a longer interval All op

Traumatic cardiac arrest

…commotio cordis, contusio cordis implies actual structural injury to the tissues. Manifestations of contusio cordis include: Arrhythmias : Ventricular or supraventricular arrhythmias (bradyarrhythmia or tachyarrhythmia). Atrial…

Acute Pulmonary Embolism: Risk Stratification and Reperfusion

…status, clinical severity, evidence of right ventricular (RV) dysfunction, and myocardial injury. This classification is central to determining the intensity of monitoring, supportive treatment, anticoagulation…

ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock

…zone. Coronary Occlusion and Myocardial Injury STEMI generally results from abrupt reduction in coronary blood flow caused by thrombotic occlusion of a previously atherosclerotic artery…

Diuretic Strategy and Decongestion in Heart Failure

…impaired renal venous outflow and persistent right sided congestion may be important mechanisms. Diuretics relieve the hemodynamic consequences of congestion by producing a negative sodium…

Injection technique — intramuscular, subcutaneous and intradermal

…if possible, otherwise give IM with a fine needle and 5 minutes of compression. Anticoagulant treatment is not in itself a bar to vaccination. Relative…

ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) without ST elevations on 12-lead ECG

…ECG. These situations are as follows: Transmural ischemia located in the posterolateral portion of the left ventricle . Transmural ischemia located in the right ventricle . Both…

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