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Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease: Assessment and Treatment

…super morbid obesity. BMI categories are summarized below. Weight status BMI (kg/m2) Obesity class Disease risk Underweight <18.5 — — Healthy weight 18.5–24…

Heart failure: Causes, types, diagnosis, treatments & management

…the main drivers of heart failure). It is believed that the aging population, and increased prevalence of obesity, diabetes, and dysglycemia are propelling the heart…

Heart failure: Introduction

…the main drivers of heart failure). It is believed that the aging population, and increased prevalence of obesity, diabetes, and dysglycemia are propelling the heart…

Endotracheal intubation

…obesity N eck mobility Reduced neck mobility, a cervical collar, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis MACOCHA is validated for the intensive care patient and totals 12…

Chronic Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction: Four-Pillar Therapy

…Chronic heart failure evaluation should therefore seek reversible or treatable causes. The source material identifies coronary disease, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, valvular disease, cardiomyopathies, myocarditis, arrhythmias…

Incretins in Cardiometabolic Medicine: Leveraging GLP-1, GIP, and Glucagon Receptor Agonism for Cardiovascular Risk Reduction

…1 (below) shows weight loss effects of novel multi agonists in recent clinical trials (Rawshani et al). Recommended reading: MetDis Database of Obesity Trials. Obesity…

Preeclampsia and Hypertensive Pregnancy Disorders as Future Cardiovascular Risk

…childbirth and the rising prevalence of obesity. Gestational hypertension is defined in the supplied guideline material as blood pressure 140/90 mmHg on two separate…

Anthropometric measurements

…obesity 35 % 25 % Fat free mass index 15–19 kg/m² 17–22 kg/m² Ideal and dosing weight Drug dosing often requires a weight…

Arterial line

…metabolic derangement. Major surgery with expected blood loss or large volume shifts. Patients in whom non invasive measurement is unreliable: marked obesity, pronounced vasoconstriction, arrhythmia…

CPAP and non-invasive ventilation (NIV)

…every 5–10 min towards 20–25 cmH₂O according to tolerance and pCO₂ SpO₂ 88–92% Obesity hypoventilation Bilevel NIV IPAP 14–16 and EPAP…

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