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500 MOST COMMONs...

1. Most common...

GPs and patients are being put at risk by guidelines because of an ‘epidemic of misinformation’ generated by the pharma industry in collusion with...

The concept of Intermittent Fasting (IF) is nothing new. It has been practiced in one way or form by our ancestors across the millennia. Our bodies...

Location: Emergency room

Vitals: BP 100/60 mm Hg; HR is 50/min, regular; RR is 10/min; Temp. 37C(98.6).

HPI:
28-yr old white female is brought to...

Location: Emergency room

Vital signs: BP:90/60 mmHg, HR:128/min regular, Temp:100.0° F, R.R:30/min rapid and shallow

C.C: Vomitings and abdominal...

Location: Emergency room

Presenting complaint: A 7-month-old boy presents with severe breathlessness of sudden onset

Vitals:

Pulse: 100/min,...

Location: Emergency room

Presenting complaint: A 55-year-old male presents with recent onset confusion, blurry vision and headache.

Vitals:...

Location: Emergency room

Vitals: Pulse: 80/min; B.P: 145/90 mm Hg; Temp: 98.8 F; R.R: 16/min; Height: 72 inches (180 cm); Weight: 72 Kg (158.4 lbs)...

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• Diabetic Ketoacidosis :
 Confirm the diagnosis (Blood Glucose > 300 mg/dl ,PH <7.35 plus Ketosis ) .
 Record the vital signs.
 Insert an I.V...

Concise Magnesium Sulphate Protocol

Indications:

 Eclampsia.
 Severe pre eclampsia.
Contraindications:
• Neuromuscular disease.
• Myasthenia...

Management of Acute Myocardial infarction
• Immediate Treatment at home :
1. Analgesia :Diamorphine 2.5 -5 mg I.V.
2. Metoclopramide 10 mg I.V.
3....

COPD pathway.pdf

SLE Review by The New England Journal of Medicine

E balance

Respiratory chest part 1

Definition and classification of anemia
In its broadest sense, anemia is a functional inability of the blood to supply the tissue with adequate O2...

MLT EXAMINATIONS
1. A normal kidney function study shows a
a. BUN to creatinine ratio between 15:1 and 20:1
b. Alkaline phosphatase 30 to 85...

Endocrinology summary

NaturalHealth365) Researchers at the University of King Faisal, Saudi Arabia suggest that eating 2 grams of black cumin seeds – every day – may help...

Healthy eating is not about strict dietary limitations, staying unrealistically thin, or depriving yourself of the foods you love. Rather, it’s about...

Anticoagulants perioperatively

WARFARIN
Warfarin is a coumarin derivative
It acts by inhibiting vitamin K synthesis and thereby limiting the...

BASAL CELL CARCINOMA

Basal cell carcinoma is a slow growing, non-melanoma skin cancer, that is locally invasive. It originates from the basal cell...

Interferon-free Regimen Effective for Genotype-4 Chronic Hepatitis C

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - An all-oral, interferon-free regimen consisting of...

First Clinical Evidence' of Remyelination in MS:-
Researchers are reporting what they call the first clinical study to show evidence of proof of...

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SOURCE: NEUROLOGY SECRETS .5th.edition

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Developmental milestones in order an pictures that help to memorize it Developmental milestones.pdf

HOW TO READ BRAIN M.R.I

PREIF REVIEW ABOUT A.B

TO LEARN ABOUT ETHICS IN MEDICAL FEILDS IS ESSENTIAL FOR GOOD PRACTICE

 Oxygen therapy
 What is meaning of O2 therapy
 Oxygen therapy is the administration of oxygen at a concentration of pressure greater than that...

 Ebola Virus Disease
 (Ebola hemorrhagic fever)
 EPIDEMIOLOGY
 It is a severe, often fatal, illness
 It affects humans and nonhuman primates....

You have probably seen a chest x-ray (chest
radiograph), or might even have had one taken.
Have you ever wondered how to read a chest x-
ray? Here is...

Parkinsonism is any condition that causes a
combination of the movement abnormalities seen
in Parkinson's disease — such as tremor, slow
movement,...

Parenteral nutrition (PN) is feeding a person
intravenously , bypassing the usual process of
eating and digestion. The person receives
nutritional...

Sepsis and the systemic inflammatory response syndrome: Definitions, epidemiology, and prognosis

INTRODUCTION — Sepsis is a clinical syndrome that...

Prescribing drugs to pregnant women requires the balancing of benefits and risks. Only a small proportion of drugs are known to be harmful to the...

Acute Asthma Clinical Pathway.doc

Acute CoronarySyndrome Clinical Pathway.pdf

HI POTASSIuM

Causes of Hyperkalaemia:

H: Hypoaldosteronism (Addison's Disease)
I: Iatrogenic (excess infusion)
P: Pottasium-sparing diuretics...

HARVONI is indicated for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C
* Its effective in more than 97% .sovaldi+ribavirin effective in 90%
* developed by...

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Undoubtedly,intensive care unit is one of the major components of health care system,which provides high quality of care to critically ill...

NORMAL VALUE ACCORDING TO :
CCS = Canadian Cardiovascular Society
CHEP = Canadian Hypertension Education Program
MCC = Medical Council of Canada

Dysmenorrhea refers to the symptom of painful menstruation. It can be divided into 2 broad categories: primary (occurring in the absence of pelvic...

Background
The Rh factor (ie, Rhesus factor) is a red blood cell surface antigen that was named after the monkeys in which it was first discovered....

Case Problem :Overcoming Bacterial Resistance In Respiratory Infection.pdf

Acute_pain_management_for_opioid_tolerant_patients_Update_2011-1.pdf

HIV infection in young children most commonly arises as a result of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT). It is thought that only 1.5-2% of MTCT...

In a ground-breaking research project at the University of Gothenburg, seven
of Gothenburg started in 1999 Swedish women have had embryos...

209585.pdf

437340 (1).pdf

207659.pdf

skin lesions

AcneVulgaris.pdf

Ebola Virus Infection.docx

sickle PROTOCOL FINAL.
Standard Case Management of Sickle Cell Anaemia

Case Ca. Esophagus.doc

one of the rare topic discussed is achalasia........
here concise information.......

heparin induced thrombocytopenia.....common facing problem........
her some information........

Hernia

* Outside links to download books or materials are STRICTLY not allowed. warning issued

next time you want to admit to icu read this first

useful formulas in fluid therapy and electrolytes correction

diagnosis of dibetes mellitus

Hormonal_contraception_%20recent.pdf

How to read CTG

inflammatory diseases.docx

S L E full notes

Summary
1. Both the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Royal College of Midwives support labouring in water for healthy women...

First (olfactory) nerve
Causes of anosmia:
Bilateral:
1. Upper respiratory tract infection( commonest)
2. Meningioma of the olfactory groove(late)
3....

Dear Colleagues,

Attached is a useful notes on the basics of Lung Auscultation. I find it very useful refresher.

NB : it was recently published...

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Comprehensive key for ENT Cases.docx 139 KIB

جميلة جدا ارجو قراتها..
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Doppler ultrasound
that in which measurement and a visual record are made of the shift in frequency of a continuous ultrasonic wave proportional to...

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Drugs%20affecting%20uterine%20motility.pdf

GI%20Tract%20Drugs.pdf

Localized pathological dilatation of blood vessels 1/ Abdominal aortic aneurysm - associated with atherosclerosis .occurs more frequently In male...

ANP is related from the atria in response to increase blood volume and atrial pressure .causes : generalized vascular relaxation .constrict efferent...

Eisenmenger's syndrome : incorrected VSD,ASD or PDA.causes compensatory pulmonary vascular hypertrophy which result in progressive pulmonary...

Acute Coronary Syndromes.rar

Tick-borne malarialike illness ...... :|

ar04313hemodynpocketcard.pdf Normal Hemodynamic Parameters
and Laboratory Values
:idea:
= Hemodynamic pocket card

Tricyclic over dose:
dusolipin and amitriptyline
The treatment goal is to treat the acidosis by NaHCO3 and hemodialysis is not a choice.

P450 inhibitors:
CARS IQ
C = cimetidine and omeprazole
A= Antibiotics erythromycin and ciprofloxacin
A = Amidarone
A = Allopurinol
A = Acute Alcohol...

P450 inducer:
RGB 2AS
R= Rifampicin
G= griseofulvin
B= barbiturates
A= anti epileptics
A= chronic Alcohol intake
S= St johns wort
S= Smoking require...

Sjo¨gren’s syndrome.p

us at emergency dep

Data have emerged to show that early recognition and aggressive
intervention for RA make a long-term difference to prognosis
C TNF-a inhibitors and...

The physiologic changes that occur in pregnancy may exceed the patient’s underlying compensatory mechanisms, resulting in initial symptom onset or...

this file contained questions with full clinical notes and explanations made easy in tropical diseases

CADASIL ( Cerebral Autosomal-Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy ) is the most common form of...

Fat embolism syndrome typically presents 24-72 h after the initial injury. Rarely, cases occur as early as 12 h or as much as 2 weeks later....

the blood vesseles of lower extremity

Prevention and long-term control are key in stopping asthma attacks before they start. Treatment usually involves learning to recognize your triggers...

Hepatitis A is a highly contagious liver infection caused by the hepatitis A virus. The hepatitis A virus is one of several types of hepatitis...

Hepatic encephalopathy (also known as portosystemic encephalopathy) is the occurrence of confusion, altered level of consciousness, and coma as a...

Diabetic Ketoacidosis

In children under 10 years of age, diabetic ketoacidosis causes 70% of diabetes-related deaths. Diabetic ketoacidosis is...

normal values in medicine

BDI

The original BDI, first published in 1961, consisted of twenty-one questions about how the subject has been feeling in the last week. Each...

Symptoms
Self-portrait of a person with schizophrenia, representing that individual's perception of the distorted experience of reality in the...

Signs and symptoms

Acute infection with hepatitis B virus is associated with acute viral hepatitis – an illness that begins with general ill-health,...

NUTRITION & miscellaneous.doc

Definition
Severe uncontrolled known diabetes or new presentation
Blood Glucose > 11mmol/l
Bicarbonate (HCO3) 100 bpm
Anion Gap > 16
Step 1: 0 - 60...

physician burnout syndrome is a psychological syndrome of emotional exhaustion , depersonalization , and reduced personal accomplishment that can...

Often, degenerative disc disease can be successfully treated without surgery. One or a combination of treatments such as physical therapy,...

) is one of the most common medical signs and is characterized by an elevation of body temperature above the normal range of 36.5–37.5 °C (97.7–99.5...

FA) is a genetic disease with an incidence of 1 per 350,000 births, with a higher frequency in Ashkenazi Jews and Afrikaners in South Africa.

FA is...

]Crush syndrome

Crush syndrome (also traumatic rhabdomyolysis or Bywaters' syndrome) is a medical condition characterized by major shock and renal...

Mechanism of action:
Aciclovir differs from previous nucleoside analogues in containing only a partial nucleoside structure: the sugar ring is...

medical_anticoagulation.pdf

this is a small sized pdf book which summarizes Arrhythmia
Enjoy :)

Serum Na+ (135-145 mmol/L)
Serum K+ (3.5-5 mmol/L)

Hyponatremia ( 20 due to renal loss (diuretics, hypoaldosteronism , RTA, renal disease)
•...

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Breast-feeding has been linked with increased arterial distensibility in later life and thus may predispose to hypertension. From ?Duration of...

Cystic Fibrosis - an autosomal recessive disease affecting 1 in 2500 births in the Caucasian population and carrier rate is 1 in 25. It occurs due to...

Congestive heart failure facts

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a condition in which the heart's function as a pump is inadequate to meet the...

What is a migraine headache?

A migraine headache is a common form of headache that is believed to occur as a result of complex interactions...

Multiple sclerosis facts

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease which progressively injures the nerves of the brain and spinal cord.
Injury to the...

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Antibiotic drugs: research

What are parasomnias?

The term “parasomnia” refers to all the abnormal things that can happen to people while they sleep, apart from sleep apnea....

definitions

• Treatment-refractory mania : Mania without remission despite 6 weeks of adequate therapy with at least two antimanic agents used...

hemodialysis.thesis

Mental illness can have a devastating effect on an individual, his or her family and friend, and on the community in many ways. How it affects the...

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sugar dressing.docx

deep vein thrombosis ; etiology and clinical features

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Metabolic
Elevated lactate is a feature of a number of inborn errors including organic acidaemias (A), fat oxidation defects (B), respiratory chain...

A Barton's fracture is an intra-articular fracture of the distal radius with dislocation of the radiocarpal joint.

There exist two types of Barton's...

**Endometriosis

is a gynecological medical condition in which cells from the lining of the uterus (endometrium) appear and flourish outside the...

Placental abruption (also known as abruptio placentae) is a complication of pregnancy, wherein the placental lining has separated from the uterus of...

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goodpasture syndrome characterised by rapid progressive glomerulonephritis and alveolar hge mainly presented sob , haemoptesis investigation high...

pdf file of an interesting physiology MCQS

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HISTOLOGY NOTES
EPITHELIA AND GLANDS
WRITTEN AND EDITED BY : OMAR A.BAGI
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OTHER TOPICS COMING SOON

Thyroid management

interpretation of HBV.pdf

Red eye.pdf

day befor the exam especially part 1 mrcp

quick reminder

median nerve reminder

memorize CSF analysis

Azathioprine

Azathioprine is metabolised to the active compound mercaptopurine, a purine analogue that inhibits purine synthesis. A thiopurine...

Rheumatoid arthritis: epidemiology

Epidemiology
•peak onset = 30-50 years, although occurs in all age groups
•F:M ratio = 3:1
•prevalence = 1%...

SLE: investigations

Immunology
•99% are ANA positive
•20% are rheumatoid factor positive
•anti-dsDNA: highly specific (> 99%), but less sensitive...

Osteoporosis: causes

Risk factors
•family history
•female sex
•increasing age
•deficient diet
•sedentary lifestyle
•smoking
•premature menopause...

Behcet's syndrome is a complex multisystem disorder associated with presumed autoimmune mediated inflammation of the arteries and veins. The precise...

Diagnosis and Treatment of Non-Sustained Ventricular Tachycardia in Patients with Significant Heart Disease

Basic plastic surgery techniques to suture :)

Anesthesia_in_the_Future.doc

Acongenital disorder similar to bronchopulmonary sequestration. In CCAM, usually an entire lobe of lung is replaced by a non-working cystic piece of...

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What are febrile seizures?

Febrile seizures are convulsions brought on by a fever in infants or small children. During a febrile seizure, a child...

Sickle cell anemia

Anemia - sickle cell; Hemoglobin SS disease (Hb SS); Sickle cell disease

Sickle cell anemia is a disease passed down through...

Obesity raise atrial fibrillation risk in healthy women

Obesity is a strong predictor of atrial fibrillation in otherwise healthy fertile women,...

I hope you like it

11 years old from almnagil nefidia by tribe
C/O fever 2month
Joint pain 2month
The pt quite well until 2 month PTA when developed fever high...

Pulmonary edema is the accumulation of excess fluid in the extravascular space of the lungs. This accumulation might occur slowly, as in a affected...

Acute Renal Failure: Finally, Some Progress
Acute Renal Failure

Acute renal failure (ARF) mortality remains stubbornly high, especially among...

What is endometriosis?
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is a problem many women have during their childbearing years. It means that a type of tissue that lines...

Acute vs. chronic heart failure
The clinical manifestations depend on the speed with which the syndrome
develops. Acute heart failure is often used...

Clinical features of acute porphyria
The clinical manifestations of an acute attack are very diverse and the condition may be indistinguishable from...

A primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) is a pneumothorax that occurs without a precipitating event in a person who does not have known lung...

Low-dose/overnight dexamethasone suppression tests
In normal subjects, administration of a supraphysiological dose of a glucocorticoid results in...

Endocrine features
The heterogeneity of the clinical features of PCOS extends to the endocrine abnormalities associated with it As a result, specific...

Pituitary apoplexy

Pituitary apoplexy is a clinical syndrome resulting from acute haemorrhage or infarction of the pituitary gland. It is...

HEPATITIS B.pdf

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Etiology and Pathophysiology of Acute mesenteric Ischemia

An Overview of the Presentation
All types of acute mesenteric ischemia (AMI) have, to...

It's always confusing (ipsilateral, toward) and (contralateral, away) physical signs in neurologic lesions.

Here's an attempt to collect these signs...

Cytoplasmic Versus Mitochondrial Metabolic Processes
This is a common USMLE question. Here's some help

Exclusively in the Mitochondria: Mnemonic...

Myxoedema coma is a rare but very important to diagnose medical emergency.

The clues toward this diagnosis are

'Yellowish hue' (referring to...

The Wells score of Pulmonary Embolism:
* Clinically suspected DVT - 3.0 points
* PE Is #1 Diagnosis, or Equally Likely - 3.0 points
* Tachycardia -...

Non-invasive ventilation a guide to its use

very nice concise review

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Acetaminophen Overdose and NAC Dosing.doc

Management diuretics, ACE inhibitors, and nitrate.doc

CVS & inotropes.pdf

Trigeminal neuralgia is a neurological disease in which irritation or pressure on the trigeminal nerve (the fifth cranial nerve exiting the skull)...

Ulcerative colitis is one of the 2 major types of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), along with Crohn disease. Unlike Crohn disease, which can affect...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated inflammatory disease that attacks myelinated axons in the central nervous system (CNS), destroying the...

Shock

The initial step in managing the shock in an injured patient is to recognize its presence. The initial diagnosis is based on clinical...

HERE IS THE QUOTE
Treatment of Burn:
1- Maintenance of airway, breathing and circulation.
2- Assessment of the burnt surface area according to the...

mital regurgitation.doc

aortic stenosis.doc

aortic regurgitation.doc

:| family medicine , osce stations ,history , examination and investigations

very useful sure

Aquagenic urticaria, also known as water urticaria and aquagenous urticaria, is a rare form of allergy to water. At this rare cases contact with...

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Suicide is a devastating and complex problem worldwide, accounting for around 900,000 deaths every year. A three-part Series helps us to better...

simple and easy to remember

Thalassaemia is a haemoglobinopathy resulting from defective synthesis of globin chains required for haemoglobin synthesis. Each copy of chromosome...

Pickwickian syndrome is the combination of severe obesity, a plethoric face and obstructive sleep apnoea causing hypoxia and hypercapnia resulting in...

combination of Parkinsonism and chronic liver disease in a young person is highly suggestive of Wilson’s disease, also known as hepatolenticular...

The mode of action of fibrates is to enhance lipoprotein lipase activity, increase low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor-mediated clearance of LDL...

i found this note as one of the much useful and simple at the same time :-
NICE published updated guidelines for the management of hypertension in...

Organophosphate insecticides inhibit the enzyme acetylcholinesterase, allowing accumulation of excessive acetylcholine (ACh) at muscarinic and...

The INR conveys the synthetic function of the liver and is the most accurate marker for severity of liver damage. Poor prognostic signs, and thus...

Dose-dependent unwanted effects of carbamazepine include diplopia, nystagmus, ataxia and hyponatraemia . Hepatotoxicity, peripheral neuropathy (and,...

Behav_Sc_Board_Rev.pdf

Syndromes.pdf

TB

CARDIO

D M DIABETES.pdf

Diagnosis of breast lesions is routinely performed by the
triple assessment of a specialised surgeon, radiologist
and pathologist. In this setting,...

The diagnosis of drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a
challenging problem, often confounded by incomplete
clinical information and the difficulty of...

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I would like to share you asimple fixed idea about RTA : RTA is acidosis of the blood due to renal tubular defect , in RTA type 1 the defect in...

adrenaline in anaphylaxis mustn't be given routinly as alot of clinician do , NICE state that only to be given if there is asign of shock like low Bp...

nejmicm0707466_f1 (1).jpeg An 86-year-old man was hospitalized for repeated episodes of septic shock due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus...

The combination of optic neuropathy, proptosis, chemosis, Horner's syndrome, ophthalmoplegia involvement of the first branch of the trigeminal nerve.

Thrombosis Guidelines Provide Weak Recommendation of Aspirin

CLINICAL CONTEXT
The ninth edition of the Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of...

Carbimazole Information Sheet.pdf

There are four main types of thyroid cancer (in order of frequency):

1. Papillary
2. Follicular
3. Medullary
4. Anaplastic

Follicular thyroid...

Hepatic Encephalopathy.pdf

Weil's disease (leptospirosis) is caused by Leptospira. Patients are infected when there is direct contact with infection in soil, water or urine....