Medicine in a Minute

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Afferent information is then transmitted to the brain, which leads to reflexive vasoconstriction, an increased heart rate and contractility, increasing SV, CO and BP in turn. P2Y-12 inhibitors (such as clopidogrel, prasugrel and ticagrelor) antagonise the ADP receptor and prevent platelet aggregation.

When the heart is contracting, the intramuscular blood vessels are compressed and blood flow is at its lowest. After all, how are you supposed to know how many ml of your drug you are meant to take to ingest, for example, 50 mg of the active substance? ACE inhibitors should be prescribed with caution in patients with hyponatraemia, hyperkalaemia or renal dysfunction, and are contraindicated in pregnancy.Medicine in a Minute is a student-friendly, concise text that you will want close to hand throughout your studies. Two descents are present, an X descent (reflecting atrial relaxation) and a Y descent (reflecting ventricular filling). By the end of a major battle, medical teams are overwhelmed by the sheer number of casualties arriving at a field station on foot, or brought by stretcher-bearers and in ambulances. In the winter, the journey was over snow-covered trails, often with little extra protection from the cold. g. in heart transplant patients), the resting heart rate is higher (90–110bpm) and the heart rate response is reduced during exercise (chronotropic incompetence).

The ships were overcrowded and had limited supplies of food and water, so infections such as dysentery and cholera spread easily. Medical students no longer have the time or inclination to read the huge texts that used to dominate this market – they need a concise book that covers the core information they have to know, and in a user-friendly format: Medicine in a Minute is this book.The aim of management is to instigate antiplatelet therapy expeditiously, to re-perfuse the myocardium in STEMI, and to prevent the progression of unstable angina and NSTEMI. Exercise capacity in itself is measured in metabolic equivalents, or METs, which is a strong indicator of prospective mortality.

However, regarding drugs, there are certain different kinds of dosing that depend on the specific drug and/or the patient. As they advance, these plaques also accumulate calcium, giving rise to the colloquial term ‘hardening of the arteries’. Any personal information collected will be processed in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other applicable UK laws. From 3 weeks iam taking OCD medication but iam not noticed any change regarding death obsessions or fear about loved ones death ? I gave been given rospitril by my psychiatrist, I read on internet that rospitril can kill you, I am experiencing very weird symptoms and my heart rate goes upto 150 and also I am fearing death.

I particularly liked the emergencies section which covers common situations encountered by junior doctors in the hospital situation. Novel oral anticoagulants (NOACs), such as apixaban, dabigatran and rivaroxaban, are used increasingly as they do not require therapeutic monitoring. But until the late 18th century, combat officers had to be persuaded that it was worth risking the lives of healthy soldiers to rescue the wounded.

Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Wallis quotes Brown University’s Elizabeth Toll who says the implementation of technology such as electronic health records meant her job as a pediatrician no longer “revolved around people,” but rather “revolved around a computer. It has quickly found favour with medical students and is consistently one of the bestselling medical student texts.Note that in clinical practice both types of heart failure often occur simultaneously, which is termed congestive cardiac failure. NICE does not recommend the use of stress ECG testing, because of the relatively higher false positive and negative rate – but note that other guidelines (e. Image source for Painting of the Battle of Waterloo by Denis Dighton: British Hussars of Viviene's Brigade. I'm more of a visual learner and their videos are informative, entertaining, and have truly helped me to understand medical concepts in a way that I never thought was possible. This discrepancy is most commonly caused by atherosclerotic disease, although possible non-atherosclerotic causes, such as coronary artery anomalies (younger individuals) and systemic vasculitides (older individuals), should also be kept in mind.