Medicine in a Minute

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It has quickly found favour with medical students and is consistently one of the bestselling medical student texts. The ATP III Guidelines are also a useful accessory when evaluating lipid-lowering therapy in ischaemic heart disease. Accelerated hypertension presents with evidence of hypertensive retinopathy, no worse than grade 3 (e.

And those with serious injuries had to be transported to base hospitals once their condition was stable enough for travel. You should thus always check if you are administering the appropriate drug to the appropriate person through the appropriate route in the appropriate dose! It covers a huge range of diseases in concise, accurate detail which should leave you well prepared for exams.There is a greater prevalence of hypertension in first-degree relatives with hypertension, and a high concordance in identical twins. For instance, in 2016 a group of scientists from France published an article in the Journal of Clinical Oncology in which they summarized the results of their clinical trial on patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (cancer of large bowel in the IV stage of the disease – with metastases).

More recently better transport and improvements in emergency medicine have made the ‘ Platinum Ten Minutes’[pdf] a viable target for getting the wounded to treatment. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now.Medicine in a Minute is a concise guide to the fundamentals of undergraduate medicine; it is the one book you will want close to hand throughout your time at medical school. The doses are different depending on the concentration of the drug's active compound in the serum (e. Stress testing is contraindicated if patients have had a recent MI, have severe valvular disease or arrhythmias. The seriously wounded then had to be transported on mule litters for seven miles over rough mountain tracks to the port of Balaclava.

It's easy to imagine that the weight of the body of an adolescent may be 40 times larger than that of a newborn baby, so we hope you can see the need to dose drugs accurately.

In patients with pre-existing disease (such as coronary artery disease or aortic stenosis), tachycardia may lead to reduced myocardial perfusion. NICE does not recommend the use of stress ECG testing, because of the relatively higher false positive and negative rate – but note that other guidelines (e. The autonomic nervous system plays an important role in controlling the rate of SA node impulse formation and conduction and the strength of muscle contraction. g. in heart transplant patients), the resting heart rate is higher (90–110bpm) and the heart rate response is reduced during exercise (chronotropic incompetence). Lipid-lowering agents are exemplified by the statins, which work by inhibiting HMG CoA reductase, thereby reducing synthesis of cholesterol in the liver.

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.Stress myocardial perfusion or stress echocardiography (using agents such as dobutamine, which mimic cardiac stress) are more specific investigations than the stress ECG and can be used in patients with contraindications to stress ECG testing, or where ECGs may not be viable (e.