…set or a 6–8 F pigtail catheter, a drainage bag or a vacuum bottle. Drainage: a chest drain, an underwater seal unit, suture material…

Procedurer Aspirate and biopsy answer different questions and do not replace one another: the aspirate shows cellular morphology and provides material for flow cytometry and…

…and repolarization generate electrical currents. It was also explained that the electrical currents are conducted all the way to the skin, because the tissues and…

…120 beats per minute. Chest pain (chest discomfort) Chest pain during exercise is one of the strongest predictors of coronary artery disease. The severity of…

…way to find the right level is to give a small dose, wait until it has worked, and assess the effect before the next one…

…hard to find in older women. Two things separate the safe catheterisation from the harmful one: never forcing against resistance, and never catheterising urethrally when…

…With ultrasound guidance, the point at which the fluid lies most superficially is chosen and the needle is followed all the way in, which has…

…of a fine needle, and collapsed veins mean that the fine needle is in addition the only one that will go in. The rule that…

…simple — bicarbonate and a look at the urine dipstick — but it fails routinely for one single reason: without normal potassium the urine cannot be alkalinised…

…One metabolic equivalent (1 MET) is defined as the amount of oxygen consumed while sitting at rest and is equal to 3.5 ml O2…