Adrenaline Advanced Life Support Medications
The vasoconstrictor adrenaline is known to enhance both myocardial and cerebral perfusion, although there is no evidence that it increases the survival to hospital discharge in cardiac arrest. It has...
Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT) is a series of three or more SVPBs which may occur for a few beats or continuously for several hours or days. The last beat of the series is followed...
Intracranial Pressure Monitoring: Invasive intracranial pressure monitoring is mainly limited to neurological and trauma intensive care units. Insertion of these devices is performed in specialist units. The presentation here is to aid understanding of...
Hysteroscopy test allows direct visualization of the endometrial cavity. It is indicated for women with an abnormal Papanicolaou (Pap) test, dysfunctional uterine bleeding, or postmenopausal bleeding.
NORMAL FINDINGS OF HYSTEROSCOPY
Normal structure and function of the...
Pericardiocentesis: Echocardiography-directed pericardial drainage is required for cardiac tamponade due to excess pericardial fluid and to obtain samples of pericardial fluid for the purposes of investigation.
Preparation and equipment required for Pericardiocentesis
Establish peripheral venous access,...
Ovarian cancer is a gynecologic malignancy with high mortality because of advanced disease by time of diagnosis. It is the leading cause of morbidity of gynecologic cancers.
Pathophysiology and Causes of Ovarian Cancer
1. Median age...