A practical guide to the management of medical emergencies - part 9 doc

... ciencies Musculoskeletal Myopathy Fractures Hematological Macrocytosis Anemia Thrombocytopenia Leucopenia TABLE 87.3 Management of alcohol withdrawal syndrome and Wernicke encephalopathy Problem Features Management Alcohol ... expert advice from an infectious diseases physician or neurologist. CHAPTER 90 5 79 Palliative care TABLE 90 .2 Management of cancer pain: analgesia...

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... microscopy Further reading American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association. Guidelines for the management of patients with valvular heart disease (2006). American College of Car- diology ... interval is a sign of abscess formation: arrange transesophageal echocardiography) • Repeat transthoracic echocardiography if there is a change in clinical status and befor...

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... on the management of asthma. Thorax 2003; 58 (suppl I): i1–i94. Holgate ST, Polosa R. The mechanisms, diagnosis, and management of severe asthma in adults. Lancet 2006; 368: 80 93 . Acute exacerbation ... give high-fl ow oxygen • Call an anesthetist: endotracheal intubation may be needed to allow suctioning of the airway and adequate ventilation • Put in a large-bore IV...

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... fever/bacteremia Extradural hematoma Rare complication of warfarin anticoagulation Prolapse of cervical or Suspect if there is spinal pain thoracic intervertebral accompanied by root pain disc Atlantoaxial ... Unable to walk • Admit other patients to a general ward for observation and further investigation. Monitor vital capacity, respiratory rate, heart rate and blood pressure 8...

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... frequent/severe • Associated cardiac disease 38 COMMON PRESENTATIONS Narrow complex tachycardia TABLE 6.3 Intravenous therapy to terminate supraventricular tachycardia (AV nodal re-entrant tachycardia and AV ... Temporary cardiac pacing, 600 94 Pericardial aspiration, 6 09 95 DC cardioversion, 614 96 Insertion of a chest drain, 6 19 97 Lumbar puncture, 627 98 Aspiration of a k...

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... 15 99 Arterial blood gases, oxygen saturation and oxygen therapy Feature Comment Respiratory failure Arterial hypoxemia is defi ned as an arterial PO 2 <10.7 kPa, and respiratory failure as ... bronchoscopy to remove particulate matter from the airways, physiotherapy and antibiotic therapy Continued CHAPTER 13 89 Acute chest pain TABLE 13.5 Cardiac biomarkers Marker Rises afte...

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... transjugular liver biopsy ALF, acute liver failure; ALT, alanine aminotransferase; AST, aspartate aminotransferase; IVC, inferior vena cava. CHAPTER 67 433 Diabetic ketoacidosis TABLE 67.4 Potassium ... infection of the paranasal sinuses particularly associated with DKA, and should be suspected in patients with headache, ocular or facial pain. Seek an urgent ears, nose and throat (ENT...

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... electrophoresis MCV <75 fl in beta-thalassemia normal in alpha- trait thalassemia trait and abnormal in beta- thalassemia trait and other thalassemia syndromes Continued CHAPTER 74 471 Cellulitis Disorder ... and beta-lactam antibiotics. Also seen in advanced renal failure and myelodysplasia Coagulation factor See Table 78.6 defi ciency or inhibitor Acquired inhibitors are antibodies...

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... of speech of the context words are considered. By op- erating on a part -of- speech tagged corpus those sense distinctions that have an effect on part of speech can be taken into account. Acknowledgements ... co-occurrence vec- tors, i.e. vectors that reflect the overall be- havior of a word in a corpus. If a word is se- mantically ambiguous, this means that these...

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