A practical guide to the management of medical emergencies - part 6 doc

... frequent/severe• Associated cardiac disease38 COMMON PRESENTATIONSNarrow complex tachycardiaTABLE 6. 3 Intravenous therapy to terminate supraventricular tachycardia (AV nodal re-entrant tachycardia and AV ... 20081 2008Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataSprigings, David.Acute medicine : a practical guide to the management of medical emergencies / David Sprigings, John B. Chambers. – ... forward through the AV node and back via the accessory pathway)– Fast conduction of atrial fi brillation down the accessory pathway (broad complex, irregular)– Rarely, antidromic tachycardia...

... 99Arterial blood gases, oxygen saturation and oxygen therapyFeature CommentRespiratory failure Arterial hypoxemia is defi ned as an arterial PO2 <10.7 kPa, and respiratory failure as an ... known cardiac disease or is aged > ;60 years Arrhythmias Due to toxin or metabolic complications Check arterial gases and pH, and plasma potassium, calcium and magnesium. Renal failure May ... bronchoscopy to remove particulate matter from the airways, physiotherapy and antibiotic therapy ContinuedCHAPTER 13 89Acute chest painTABLE 13.5 Cardiac biomarkersMarker Rises after: Peaks at:...

... transjugular liver biopsyALF, acute liver failure; ALT, alanine aminotransferase; AST, aspartate aminotransferase; IVC, inferior vena cava.CHAPTER 67 433Diabetic ketoacidosisTABLE 67 .4 Potassium ... and treatment of diabetic ketoacidosis and the hypergly-caemic hyperosmolar state. J Can Med Assoc 2003; 168 : 859 66 .Savage MW, Kilvert A. ABCD guidelines for the management of hyperglycaemic ... exerciseContinuedBiliary tract disorders and acute pancreatitis 64 Biliary tract disorders and acute pancreatitis4 06 TABLE 64 .1 Biliary tract disorders: clinical features and management Disorder Clinical features...

... electrophoresis MCV <75 fl in beta-thalassemia normal in alpha- trait thalassemia trait and abnormal in beta- thalassemia trait and other thalassemia syndromesContinuedCHAPTER 74 471CellulitisDisorder ... and beta-lactam antibiotics. Also seen in advanced renal failure and myelodysplasiaCoagulation factor See Table 78 .6 defi ciency or inhibitor Acquired inhibitors are antibodies to coagulation ... heparin-dependent antibodiesDifferential Sepsisdiagnosis Thrombocytopenia due to other drugs Management Seek advice from a hematologist Stop heparin Use alternative anticoagulant therapy with direct- acting...

... 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 vectors are mixtures of all its senses. ... clusters. As we can see, the dissimilarities among the top 30 associations to palm are all in the upper half of the scale and not very distinct. The two expected clusters for palm, one relating to...