When it comes todescribing medical symptoms – from sharp chest pains to sudden mood swings – as the patient, you’re the go-to member for the entire health care team. Unlike signs picked up on physical exams or laboratory results, symptoms are what you experience firsthand and c...
This term is sometimes used to describe a diabetic emergency that happens if you develop severe hypoglycemia, or very low blood sugar. The term "insulin shock" is somewhat misleading because although it occurs most often in people who use insulin, you can also develop this problem if you use...
and academic publishers long having derived some 90% of their revenue online, it is a travesty to describe all this as the publishing world being "in denial" about digital.
Symptoms of bowel obstruction include colicky abdominal pain, feeling bloated, nausea, vomiting and constipation or inability to empty your bowels. Occasionally, the bowel is able to "free" itself from the grip of adhesions and symptoms may resolve on their own. Infertility Infertility can be the ...
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To describe the incidence of bilious vomiting in infants with infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis that presented to a pediatric emergency department.A retrospective medical record review included all infants who presented to our level 1 pediatric emergency department from January 1, 2005, through ...
A symptom of migraines: does this describe you? Knowing if you have a symptom of migraines or something else will give you the keys you need to find the right treatment.Even a doctor may misdiagnose you at first, so we're going to look closely at each symptom to see what your head ...
For the purposes of this article, we'll use "regional anesthesia" to describe anesthesia that's used in a wider region of the body. Regional Anesthetic Types and Techniques While a local anesthetic may be used to numb an area on the leg, regional anesthesia can numb the entire leg. This...
[25] describe the development and application of standardized data structures for rare diseases, specifically focusing on Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and Huntington's disease (HD), using Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) therapeutic area user guides. These guides support the ...
1. Explain how to take a blood pressure. 2. Includes a brief discussion of hypertension and shock. Describe how the kidney helps to maintain normal blood volume and blood pressure. ADH causes the increase of reabsorption of water in the kidneys. How does this impact blood ...