…through statements made to the next of kin. Active malignancy with a risk of transmission (an individual assessment; certain tumour types are not a bar)…

…not apparent. Such a discrepancy should prompt consideration of an infiltrative cardiomyopathy within the appropriate clinical context. Several patient related factors influence interpretation. Natriuretic peptide…

…of overdose. Sedation precedes respiratory depression; monitor it. Naloxone is titrated to spontaneous breathing, not to wakefulness. It has a short half life, and the…

…Patients with inflammatory rheumatic disease have a higher cardiovascular risk than the general population. This excess risk has been documented across a broad range of…

…caution in patients with asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Dyspnea has been reported in patients treated with ticagrelor. Patients with a history of ischemic…

…Implantation history and current indication. Device function and battery status. Whether the patient is pacemaker dependent. Whether the device has been recently interrogated and whether…

…the patient has sepsis, septic shock, or a need for high dependency or intensive care 3 Take at least two sets of blood cultures from…

…Akutsjukvård Lathundar Immediate management The most dangerous asthma attack is the silent one. A patient who has become calm, quiet in the chest and stopped…

…describes a clinical presentation in which the patient has symptoms suggestive of acute coronary syndrome (ACS), biochemical evidence of myocardial injury with corroborating evidence of…

…vestibular neuritis from posterior circulation infarction. The test presupposes that the patient has spontaneous nystagmus at the time of examination and that the examiner is…