epub |eng | 2012-09-05 | Author:Urman, Richard D. [Urman, Richard D.]

Spinal Shock • Disruption of all cord function caudal to spinal cord injury • Causes flaccid weakness/lack of spinal arc reflexes at and below injury Autonomic Hyperreflexia • Most common ...

epub |eng | 2013-06-24 | Author:Paterson-Brown MBBS MPhil MS FRCS, Simon [Paterson-Brown MBBS MPhil MS FRCS, Simon]

10 Colonic emergencies David E. Beck Introduction Emergency conditions of the large bowel are common and changes in their evaluation and management have continued. Rather than rushing the patient to ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-11 | Author:Velasco, Jose M. [Velasco, Jose M.]

Comments If a normal appendix is found at the time of laparotomy, other causes should be sought. If Crohn’s disease is encountered and the cecum and base of the appendix ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-30 | Author:Klamen, Debra & George, Brian & Harken, Alden & DaRosa, Debra [Klamen, Debra]

Removing only 20 mL should make a huge hemodynamic difference (see Figure 32-1). Conceptually, let’s take some impermissible physiological leaps: by removing 20 mL of pericardial fluid, you permit an ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-30 | Author:Egol MD, Kenneth [Egol MD, Kenneth]

A knee dislocation is a potentially limb-threatening condition. Because of the high incidence of neurovascular compromise, immediate reduction is recommended before radiographic evaluation. Following reduction, anteroposterior (AP) and lateral views ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-09-04 | Author:Fleming, Charles [Fleming, Charles]

Rancho Linda School sat high in the foothills to the east of San Jose. It was surrounded by fruit orchards and framed by eucalyptus trees, and it overlooked the city ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2000-02-13 | Author:Colapinto, John [Colapinto, John]

* * * Upon entering Dr. McKenty’s office at the Child Guidance Clinic for her first session on 2 January 1979, Brenda was surprised by the sight of the smiling, ...

epub |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:David Levy & Joel Kilpatrick

Chapter 8 Paralyzed Sam was a thin man in his mid-forties, with straight black hair and a skeptical, serious personality. He was by most measures poor, having come from another ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-03-31 | Author:Gawande, Atul [Gawande, Atul]

This seemed like luck, as I say. But suppose it wasn’t. That’s what the checklists from Toronto and Hopkins and Kaiser raised as a possibility. Their insistence that people talk ...

mobi |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:David Levy; Joel Kilpatrick

Chapter 8 Paralyzed Sam was a thin man in his mid-forties, with straight black hair and a skeptical, serious personality. He was by most measures poor, having come from another ...

epub |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:Judith Z. Kallenbach [Kallenbach, Judith Z.]

How is low potassium treated? Dietary intake of potassium may need to be increased and intravenous potassium may be given if a rapid rise in the serum potassium level is ...