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
More than 5 million patients are admitted to US intensive care units (ICUs) each year. Many of these patients have risk factors
for dysphagia. Dysphagia must be promptly addressed and appropriately treated to avoid the deleterious impacts of aspiration and
malnutrition.
JAN 18, 2021 | CLINICAL: 3 POINTS
Many patients with cancer experience poor nutritional status, which detrimentally impacts clinical outcomes. Poor nutritional
status in cancer is primarily manifested by severe muscle mass (MM) depletion, which may occur at any stage (from curative to
palliative) and often co-exists with obesity.
JAN 18, 2021 | CLINICAL: 3 POINTS
Introduction – full blood count
• One of the most frequently requested tests in lab.
• Adds important information to assessment of patient.
• Accurate interpretation of FBC is an essential skill.
MAY 14, 2021 | CLINICAL: 2 POINTS
Cytogenetics plays an important role in understanding chromosomal and genetic disorders. Understanding the basic cytogenetic abnormalities can give us an insight in its use in the diagnosis of haematological diseases.
MAR 17, 2021 | CLINICAL: 1 POINT
During the management of critical illness, optimal nutritional support is an important key for achieving positive clinical outcomes. Compared to healthy people, critically ill patients have higher..
FEB 8, 2021 | CLINICAL: 1 POINTS
Trauma scoring systems are widely used in emergency settings to guide clinical decisions and to predict mortality. It remains unclear which system is most suitable to use for patients with gunshot injuries at district-level hospitals.
JULY 01, 2021 | CLINICAL: 3 POINTS
Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) causes severe community and nosocomial outbreaks.
JULY 1, 2021 | CLINICAL: 3 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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