Medicine in a Minute

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Medical students no longer have the time or inclination to read the huge texts that used to dominate this market – they need a concise book that covers the core information they have to know, and in a user-friendly format: Medicine in a Minute is this book! Medicine in Minutes has been a great resource for me to learn more about different medical conditions, treatments, and healthy lifestyle choices. Accelerated hypertension presents with evidence of hypertensive retinopathy, no worse than grade 3 (e. You should thus always check if you are administering the appropriate drug to the appropriate person through the appropriate route in the appropriate dose! Characterized by deliberate interaction, the Pritzker “golden minute” serves the physician-patient relationship well.

Lipid-lowering agents are exemplified by the statins, which work by inhibiting HMG CoA reductase, thereby reducing synthesis of cholesterol in the liver.Patients are stratified according to their 10-year risk, with >20% risk being a coronary heart disease equivalent; ≤20% conferring moderate risk; and patients with 0–1 risk factor (or a lower than 10% 10-year risk score by default) being regarded as low risk.

Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. But until the late 18th century, combat officers had to be persuaded that it was worth risking the lives of healthy soldiers to rescue the wounded. Stress ECG testing represents a cost-effective alternative to various imaging modalities, and is suitable for evaluating the majority of patients.

The wounded are assessed as they arrive at the dressing station and prioritised for treatment according to the severity of their injuries. In the Second World War (1939–45), aeroplanes were increasingly used to send the seriously wounded to base hospitals, alongside motorised vehicles, trains and ships.

Medicine in a Minute is a student-friendly, concise text that you will want close to hand throughout your studies.We believe this focus – and similar models used by Stanford Medicine 25 – supports two practices at the core of bedside medicine: empathy and the physical exam. Medicine in a Minute is a new full-colour text covering the fundamentals of undergraduate medicine in one book. P2Y-12 inhibitors (such as clopidogrel, prasugrel and ticagrelor) antagonise the ADP receptor and prevent platelet aggregation. ACE inhibitors should be prescribed with caution in patients with hyponatraemia, hyperkalaemia or renal dysfunction, and are contraindicated in pregnancy. The cardiac cycle can be divided into two distinct phases: systole (contraction) and diastole (relaxation).

Often associated with large pericardial and pleural effusions, the former predisposing to cardiac tamponade. Note that in clinical practice both types of heart failure often occur simultaneously, which is termed congestive cardiac failure. The seriously wounded then had to be transported on mule litters for seven miles over rough mountain tracks to the port of Balaclava. The ships were overcrowded and had limited supplies of food and water, so infections such as dysentery and cholera spread easily.Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding your medical condition. Dobutamine, a positive inotrope and chronotrope, is used because it actively simulates exercise, but should not be used in patients with pacemakers or with left bundle branch block. Only essential to know information is provided so it is perfect for lunch time revision while being on placement. Those with little chance of recovery were given pain relief, usually opium or morphine, and seen by the surgeons when the other categories had been cleared. It was a strange thing to feel my clothes stiff with blood, and my arms powerless with the exertion of using the knife.