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Cardiac arrest in hyperthermia and malignant hyperthermia

…JE, Gwyther R, Kirkman E. Closed chest compressions reduce survival in an animal model of hemorrhage induced traumatic cardiac arrest. Resuscitation 2019;140: 37 42…

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…threatening arrhythmias, thereby preventing sudden cardiac death. The 2015 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines advocate for ICD implantation in high risk LQTS patients, emphasizing…

🟠 Hypertensive emergency (crisis) - Drugs, doses & management

…malignant hypertension ). Hypertensive emergency is defined as significantly elevated blood pressure (systolic pressure ≥180 mmHg and/or diastolic pressure ≥120 mmHg) with concurrent signs of…

Hypertensive emergency (crisis)

…malignant hypertension ). Hypertensive emergency is defined as significantly elevated blood pressure (systolic pressure ≥180 mmHg and/or diastolic pressure ≥120 mmHg) with concurrent signs of…

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…threatening arrhythmias, thereby preventing sudden cardiac death. The 2015 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines advocate for ICD implantation in high risk LQTS patients, emphasizing…

ECG manifestations of left main coronary artery (LMCA) occlusion and critical stenosis

…malignant ventricular arrhythmias, or sudden cardiac death. The resulting extensive ischemia causes immediate myocardial stunning (akinesia) and electrical instability. Fewer than 1% of patients with…

Cryotherapy of skin lesions

…edge of the tissue is decisive: benign tissue requires about −25 °C for reliable cell death, malignant tissue about −50 °C. The outer limit of…

Hypertensive crisis: drugs and doses

…levels, particularly in pregnancy [1,2]. Malignant hypertension is not entirely synonymous with a hypertensive emergency. The term denotes severe hypertension with advanced hypertensive retinopathy…

Pleural aspiration and chest drain

…recurrent malignant effusion (often combined with pleurodesis), and in chest trauma and postoperatively. Emergency needle decompression: a clinical suspicion of tension pneumothorax in a haemodynamically…

Hypertensive Emergency and Urgency: Differentiation and Treatment

…vascular beds. Malignant hypertension represents an extreme form in which acute microvascular injury occurs, classically involving fibrinoid necrosis of small arteries in the kidneys, retina…

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