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Leg ulcers — wound debridement and compression therapy

Procedurer Compression is the treatment that heals venous leg ulcers; everything else is supportive. But the same compression applied to a limb with arterial insufficiency…

Poisoning: quick reference for antidotes and initial management

…centre , which in most countries is staffed around the clock for health care professionals. Contact the centre early in serious, unusual or unclear poisoning, with…

Acute Pulmonary Embolism: Risk Stratification and Reperfusion

…the intensity of monitoring, supportive treatment, anticoagulation, and possible reperfusion. The principal pathophysiological determinant of early adverse outcome is acute RV failure. In acute PE…

Pericardiocentesis

…electrical alternans Supportive; it does not exclude Diastolic collapse of the right atrium and right ventricle The cardinal echocardiographic finding A dilated inferior vena cava…

Cardiac arrest in intoxication (poisoning)

…antidote is not available, it is essential to provide supportive care and maintain vital functions artificially until the substance undergoes renal elimination, hepatic elimination or…

Alcohol withdrawal and delirium tremens: quick reference

…can start earlier in patients with previous complicated withdrawal [4]. Untreated delirium tremens has historically carried a high mortality. With modern sedation, supportive treatment and…

Gastric lavage and activated charcoal

…measure in decontamination, and gastric lavage is today a rare procedure reserved for very serious poisonings in which the patient reaches hospital early. The benefit…

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