…the same site within a year. The Achilles tendon and the patellar tendon — do not inject into or beside them. Anticoagulant treatment is not a…

…steroid that cross reacts in the cortisol assay, whether the samples were taken at the right times, and whether you know which decision threshold your…

…or primary arrhythmias, shockable rhythm indicates that the duration of cardiac arrest is relatively short (or there is high quality CPR). The longer the duration…

Procedurer Edrophonium is a very short acting cholinesterase inhibitor: the effect appears within less than a minute and has gone after 5–10 minutes. That…

Esmolol Drug Esmolol Brand names Brevibloc ® Indications Short term control of ventricular rate (including perioperative tachycardia) and hypertension (including hypertensive emergency, perioperative hypertension). Mechanism…

Fenoldopam Drug Fenoldopam Brand names Corlopam ® Indications Short term management of hypertension, including hypertensive emergency. Mechanism of action • Systemic Dopamine 1 (D1) receptor agonist…

Echocardiography Pulsed Wave Doppler The pulsed wave Doppler (PW Doppler) sends short pulses of ultrasound and analyzes reflected sound waves between the pulses. This is…

Echocardiography Generating the ultrasound image The ultrasound transducer generates short bursts (pulses) of ultrasound waves. Reflected ultrasound waves are analyzed by the machine during the…

…A large bore, short cannula in a large vein gives many times the flow of a fine needle, and collapsed veins mean that the fine…

…Hypertension and hypertensive emergency. Treatment of postoperative hypertension. Mechanism of action Ultra short acting calcium channel blocker (CCB). Half life: 5 minutes. Rapidly inactivated by…