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Urinary alkalinisation

…Insert a urinary catheter and start hourly urine output measurement. 5. Give a bolus of sodium bicarbonate 1–2 mmol/kg intravenously in symptomatic salicylate…

Urinary catheterisation

…Indications Acute urinary retention. Chronic urinary retention with renal impairment or a large residual volume. A need for accurate measurement of urine output in a…

Hypertensive crisis: drugs and doses

…myocardial ischaemia or cerebral hypoperfusion. Pain, anxiety, urinary retention, hypoxia, drug withdrawal and incorrect blood pressure measurement must be corrected before treatment is intensified [1…

Edrophonium test

…to edrophonium. Mechanical obstruction of the bowel or the urinary tract. Marked bradycardia, sick sinus syndrome or high grade AV block without pacemaker protection. Asthma…

Targeted temperature management after cardiac arrest

…contractility of hypothermia are not tolerated. A decision to withhold further life sustaining treatment. Preparation and equipment Continuous core temperature measurement. An oesophageal probe or…

Antibiotic dosing in renal impairment: quick reference

…continued, dosing is guided by drug concentration measurement. At a creatinine clearance <20 mL/min, consider an alternative treatment In aminoglycoside treatment of obese patients…

Arterial Hypertension: Definition, Diagnosis and Out-of-Office Measurement

…or ambulatory pressure. Masked hypertension: office pressure below the hypertension threshold but hypertensive home or ambulatory pressure. Office measurements provide only a limited representation of…

Capnography (end-tidal carbon dioxide measurement, ETCO2) during cardiac arrest

…for a flat ETCO2 curve include: Ventilator or capnograph not activated. Displacement of the tracheal tube. Cardiac arrest without adequate blood flow or ineffective compressions…

Assessment of diastolic function by echocardiography

…is derived by measuring flow velocities across the mitral valve using pulsed Doppler. Estimating left ventricular filling pressure via e' . Measurement of deceleration time (DT…

Principles of myocardial perfusion imaging (SPECT, PET), coronary blood flow and flow reserve (CFR)

…employed to evaluate myocardial perfusion by measuring the intensity of their uptake within the myocardium. Furthermore, certain radiotracers enable direct measurement of coronary blood flow…

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