A 61-year-old man has the sudden onset of severe chest pain. Vital signs include T 37°C, P 102/minute, RR 20/minute, and BP 80/40 mm Hg. An electrocardiogram demonstrates changes that are consistent with myocardial ischemia involving the left lateral ventricular free wall. He is given ...
Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the cause of COVID-19, a fatal disease emerged from Wuhan, a large city in the Chinese province of Hubei in December 2019. The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a pandemic due to its spread to other countries inside
The authors’ review and own data are presented, indicating the possible role of infectious agents as an etiologic factor of schizophrenia, schizoaffective psychosis (SHAP), Alzheimer's disease, atherosclerosis, migraine, and autism spectrum disorders (A
This video on Health Choices First has some more "Heart Disease Prevention Strategies". What did you think of the video? Reply to: What is a Heart Attack? " Patrick a 70-year-old diabetic man with a 2-year history of stable chest pain" K. Michael 02 September 2015 I liked the ...
Bell palsy is the sudden onset of facial paralysis or paresis due to facial nerve inflammation in the absence of central nervous system disease and after excluding the other causes of acute peripheral palsy.2 The management includes early treatment with oral corticosteroids and eye care to prevent...
At 2 and 3 years, standing heights for children were measured with a stadiometer (Seca 216; Seca). Child body mass index (BMI; calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared)-for-age was converted to percentiles and z scores using the 2000 Centers for Disease ...
It has many causes and may present as sudden onset or more sub-acutely, with many years of progressively worsening symptoms3,4,5. Among this latter group, the most common diagnoses have a respiratory or cardiac origin and include diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (...
disease with prolonged QT interval and arrhythmic mortality. Electroanatomical mapping revealed the presence of a functional substrate vulnerable to reentry, stemming from an unforeseen constitutional slowing of cardiac activation. This signature substrate of TS1 was reliably identified using the reentry ...
Prediction of Chronic Pain Onset in Patients Experiencing Tonic Pain: A Survey Introduction In 2020, the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) revised the definition of pain, which currently reads1: “An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that...
aThe child looks unwell. They have a high fever and drool because they are unable to swallow. They have signs of respiratory compromise and present with rapid onset inspiratory and expiratory stridor. They adopt a position that provides them with a patent airway; typically they lean forwards or...