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Eye examination and corneal foreign body

…Vertical, linear scratch marks suggest a foreign body under the upper eyelid. 7. Seidel's sign: apply fluorescein generously and look under blue light. A…

Wound suturing

…a bloodless field and a longer duration. The old rule that adrenaline is forbidden on fingers, toes, nose, ears and penis has been abandoned in…

Skin biopsy — punch, shave and excision

…mL (adrenaline gives a bloodless field and a longer duration; it is safe even on the fingers, toes, nose and ears), a 27 G needle…

Arterial line

…treatment are relative contraindications and are an argument for a superficial, compressible vessel. Allen's test is still used in many units to assess the…

Left Ventricular Thrombus After Myocardial Infarction

…Although a mural thrombus is attached to infarcted myocardium, superficial components may detach and embolize systemically. Observational data indicate approximately a fourfold greater risk of…

Cryotherapy of skin lesions

…a patient with peripheral arterial disease or diabetes — the wound may not heal. Over superficial nerves (the lateral aspects of the fingers, the ulnar groove…

Soft tissue corticosteroid injection

…tunnel syndrome The carpal tunnel An acceptable bridge to surgery De Quervain's tenosynovitis The first dorsal compartment A good effect Trigger finger The tendon…

Post-Infarction Pericarditis and Dressler Syndrome

…In patients with pericarditis complicated by constriction, symptoms and signs of right sided heart failure may predominate. Pericardial effusions associated with post infarction pericarditis are…

Vulnerable Plaque and Mechanisms of Acute Coronary Occlusion

…Thus, an individual plaque’s morphology does not reliably establish that it will cause an acute event. A more clinically useful model considers both the…

Nail procedures — paronychia, ingrown toenail and subungual haematoma

…an iodine solution. Lidocaine 10 mg/mL without adrenaline for the block (adrenaline is safe in fingers and toes according to modern data, but there…

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