Frequently, patients with acute coronary syndromes and kidney disease are undertreated, worsening their prognosis. Undertreatment and comorbidities associated with renal dysfunction explain the higher mortality of these patients. 展开 关键词: Renal function Acute coronary syndromes CKD GFR Coronary angiography...
“I think the intensive blood pressure target is something you can consider with your CKD patients,” he toldHealio Primary Care Today. In this video, Vassalotti also discusses best practices for assessing BP, the importance of comparing risks and benefits of medications for patients, the challeng...
Although the ranks of hospitalists have grown rapidly during the past decade, an understanding of who they are and what they do remains unclear to many people involved in the health care industry and to most of the general public. This article explains hospitalists'' responsibilities and how ...
Explain why giving oxygen to a patient with COPD causes hypercapnia. How is dilated cardiomyopathy treated? How does COPD cause a pulmonary embolism? What is the initial treatment for a pulmonary embolism? How does a pulmonary embolism occur?
However, limitations including interspecies differences and translational difficulties during clinical trials (de Caestecker et al.2015) have driven the shift to patient-specific studies. To achieve a human-specific approach, renal cells derived from both tissue biopsies (Murray et al.2021) and urine ...
In this chapter we explain: Risk assessment using eGFR and proteinuria Competing risks of dialysis and death How a patient’s future may be predicted from their eGFR graph How patients are prepared for end-stage kidney failure How to write clinic letters directly to patients ...
To our knowledge, the pathophysiology of CFS still remains unclear, and, with the difficulty in diagnosis, the number of patients involved in the illness are believed to be underestimated4. Recent literature had proposed several hypotheses to explain the possible mechanism of CFS, including immuno-...
A patient has been admitted with a penetrating injury to the chest that has gone through the pleural membranes. Explain how this injury will disrupt pulmonary ventilation and the pressure changes that occur. Why does a pulmonary embolism cause hypotension? How does a pneumothorax heal? Do blood ...
As an emergency physician entering my twilight years (I’m in my mid-50s), all the stress from the busy shifts with overwhelming patient volumes, the fluctuating sleep schedules, and the evenings and holidays away was definitely weighing heavy on my mind and body. I had just survived the wo...
Liking the professional you choose is important, because they'll be around your home and family for awhile. But before you sign on the dotted line, be sure to ask for photos of a number of bathroom designs they've executed, and ask them to explain the "before" situation — what client...