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🟠 Enalaprilat

Enalaprilat Enalaprilat is rarely used in hypertensive crisis due to its slow onset, prolonged duration of effect, and significant individual variations in its effect. Drug…

Reduction of dislocations

…force. The methods that work best exploit time, gravity and slow movement; those that fail usually do so because the patient tenses up with pain…

🟠 Pulmonary valve

…abnormal Density CW Doppler weak, slow deceleration variable dense, steep deceleration, early termination of diastolic flow Jet width colour Doppler small,, < 10 mm length…

Atropine: Dosing in Bradycardia and Its Limitations

…Long term pharmacological management of chronic sinus bradycardia with a pacemaker is usually not necessary unless sinus rates are too slow to meet physiologic needs…

Pre-excitation, Atrioventricular Reentrant (Reentry) Tachycardia (AVRT), Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome

…delays the impulse due to its slow conduction, before the impulse may reach the ventricles. The physiological advantages of this configuration have been discussed in…

Atrial fibrillation: quick reference for emergency management

…without delay, in any of the following: A systolic blood pressure < 90 mmHg caused by the arrhythmia. Ongoing myocardial ischaemia with chest pain and…

Injection technique — intramuscular, subcutaneous and intradermal

…20–30 min Intradermal (ID) Tuberculin (PPD), skin prick testing, a local anaesthetic weal, BCG Slow, local effect Contraindications Absolute: Infection, a wound, scar tissue…

Upper gastrointestinal bleeding: quick reference

…the bleeding is slow or has stopped. The first steps Step Content : : 1 ABCDE. Assess the level of consciousness, the airway, the work of breathing…

🟠 Antiarrhythmic drugs in acute ventricular arrhythmias (ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation)

…fast offset kinetics Lidocaine , Mexiletine , Phenytoin Class IC Na + channel blocker with slow offset kinetics Flecainide, Propafenone Class II Beta adrenergic Blockers (antagonists) Atenolol, Carvedilol…

🟠 Clonidine

…g in 1 ml vial. Dilute with 10 ml of normal saline and give by slow injection over 5 10 minutes. Dilute immediately before use…

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