Diabetic ketoacidosis or DKA is caused by an absence or inadequate amount of insulin. This is a serious complication of diabetes that occurs when the body produces high levels of blood acids called ketones.
NOV 10, 2020 | CLINICAL: 2 POINTS
Appropriateness of diagnostic testing can be conventionally described as prescription of the right test, using the right method, at the right time, to the right patient, with the right costs and for producing the right outcome.
NOV 2, 2020 | CLINICAL: 2 POINTS
Macrophages are highly plastic innate immune cells that adopt an important diversity of phenotypes in response to environmental cues.
NOV 2, 2020 | CLINICAL: 3 POINTS
Careless handling of patient information in daily medical practice can result in Health Professions Council of South Africa sanction, breach of privacy lawsuits and, in extreme cases, serious monetary penalty or even imprisonment.
SEPT 21, 2020 | CLINICAL: 1 POINTS
CPR is an emergency lifesaving procedure performed when the heart stops beating
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SEPT 2, 2020 | CLINICAL: 1 POINTS
Inhaled low-dose methoxyflurane is approved in Europe for emergency relief of moderate-to-severe trauma-related pain in adults, but data versus active comparators are sparse.
JUL 20, 2020 | CLINICAL: 2 POINTS
Inhaled methoxyflurane is an analgesic used for the emergency relief of moderate to severe pain in conscious adult patients with trauma and associated pain that is increasingly being used in hospital emergency departments to provide rapid analgesia.
JUL 20, 2020 | CLINICAL: 2 POINTS
Inhaled methoxyflurane is an analgesic used for the emergency relief of moderate to severe pain in conscious adult patients with trauma and associated pain that is increasingly being used in hospital emergency departments to provide rapid analgesia.
JUL 9, 2020 | CLINICAL: 3 POINTS
Disposable medical gloves are used to protect health professionals from the risk of infection and to reduce opportunities for cross-transmission of micro-organisms”(Loveday et al, 2014).
MAY 20, 2020 | CLINICAL: 1 POINTS
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has resulted in considerable morbidity
and mortality worldwide since December 2019. However, information on cardiac injury in patients affected by COVID-19 is limited.
MAY 18, 2020 | CLINICAL: 2 POINTS
Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) causes severe community and nosocomial outbreaks.
MAY 18, 2020 | CLINICAL: 2 POINTS
Personal protective equipment (PPE), including surgical masks and N95 respirators, is crucially important to the safety of both patients and medical personnel, particularly in the event of infectious pandemics.
MAY 18, 2020 | CLINICAL: 3 POINTS
A pharmaceutical drug, also called a medication, is a chemical substance used to treat, prevent or diagnose disease or promote well-being. Drugs have both intended and unintended therapeutic effects.
MAY 7, 2020 | CLINICAL: 2 POINTS
People with intellectual disability (ID) are defined as a group bytheir need for lifelong support. For the most part, it falls to familycaregivers to provide this support.
MAR 31, 2021 | ETHICS: 3 POINTS
Ethical behaviour is core to the practice of sleep medicine. Sleep medicine raises questions in three often distinguished subcategories of ethics - normative ethics (how should we behave?)...
MAR 5, 2021 | ETHICS: 2 POINTS
Blood transfusions save countless lives around the world, with an estimated 85 million units of red blood cells transfused each year.
NOV 2, 2020 | ETHICS: 2 POINTS
Ethical behaviour is core to the practice of sleep medicine. Sleep medicine raises questions in three often distinguished subcategories of ethics - normative ethics (how should we behave?)...
MAY 19, 2020 | ETHICS: 2 POINTS
An outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and its caused coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been reported in China since December 2019.
MAY 18, 2020 | ETHICS: 2 POINTS
For years, conflicts over medical rationing have preoccupied participants in health care debates. But they have tended to take place in the abstract...
MAY 14, 2020 | ETHICS: 3 POINTS
Transplantation ethics is a philosophy that incorporates systematizing, defending, and advocating concepts of right and wrong conduct related to organ donation. In the field of organ transplantation, the role of medical ethic values is significant to the welfare of the society.
MAY 15, 2020 | ETHICS: 3 POINTS
Cell‑based therapeutics, such as marrow or peripheral blood stem cell transplantation, are a standard of care for certain malignancies. More recently, a wider variety of cell‑based therapeutics including the use of mesenchymal stromal/stem cells, T‑cells, and others show great promise in a wider range of diseases.
MAY 14, 2020 | ETHICS: 3 POINTS
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