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How Does Diabetes Cause Silent Heart Attacks?
How Does Diabetes Cause Silent Heart Attacks? samer kareem 6,201 Views • 3 years ago

A silent heart attack is a heart attack that has few, if any, symptoms. You may have never had any symptoms to warn you that you've developed a heart problem, such as chest pain or shortness of breath. Having diabetes or prediabetes puts you at increased risk for heart disease and stroke. You can lower your risk by keeping your blood glucose (also called blood sugar), blood pressure, and blood cholesterol close to the recommended target numbersthe levels suggested by diabetes experts for good health. (

PCP (Phencyclidine)
PCP (Phencyclidine) samer kareem 3,585 Views • 3 years ago

Phencyclidine (PCP) was developed in the 1950s as an intravenous anesthetic but, due to the side effects of confusion and delirium, its development for human medical use was discontinued. In its pure form, it is a white crystalline powder that readily dissolves in water or alcohol and has a distinctive bitter chemical taste. On the illicit drug market, Phencyclidine contains a number of contaminants as a result of makeshift manufacturing, causing the color to range from tan to brown, and the consistency to range from powder to a gummy mass. It is available in a variety of tablets, capsules, and colored powders, which are either taken orally or snorted. The liquid form of phencyclidine is actually phencyclidine base dissolved most often in ether, a highly flammable solvent. For smoking, phencyclidine is typically sprayed onto leafy material such as mint, parsley, oregano, or marijuana.

Clopidogrel
Clopidogrel samer kareem 1,958 Views • 3 years ago

Clopidogrel keeps the platelets in your blood from coagulating (clotting) to prevent unwanted blood clots that can occur with certain heart or blood vessel conditions. Clopidogrel is used to prevent blood clots after a recent heart attack or stroke, and in people with certain disorders of the heart or blood vessels. Clopidogrel may also be used for other purposes not listed in this medication guide

Spider Vein Sclerotherapy Injections
Spider Vein Sclerotherapy Injections samer kareem 1,717 Views • 3 years ago

Sclerotherapy is a medical procedure used to eliminate varicose veins and spider veins. Sclerotherapy involves an injection of a solution (generally a salt solution) directly into the vein. The solution irritates the lining of the blood vessel, causing it to collapse and stick together and the blood to clot.

Femoral embolectomy
Femoral embolectomy samer kareem 7,607 Views • 3 years ago

Femoral Embolectomy. Back. All emboli of the lower extremity, including a proximal saddle embolus at the aortic bifurcation, can be removed through the common femoral artery using Fogarty catheters. By passing these through the embolus, and by inflating the small balloon, the clot can be withdrawn and the flow restored

Uterine Artery Fibroid Embrolization
Uterine Artery Fibroid Embrolization Mohamed Ibrahim 14,217 Views • 3 years ago

Embolization is a medical advance that shrinks uterine fibroids. One tiny incision allows us to solve the problem quickly, safely and without surgery

Spleen Pain
Spleen Pain samer kareem 8,293 Views • 3 years ago

What is the spleen and what causes an enlarged spleen (splenomegaly)? The spleen sits under your rib cage in the upper left part of your abdomen toward your back. It is an organ that is part of the lymph system and works as a drainage network that defends your body against infection. White blood cells produced in the spleen engulf bacteria, dead tissue, and foreign matter, removing them from the blood as blood passes through it. The spleen also maintains healthy red and white blood cells and platelets; platelets help your blood clot. The spleen filters blood, removing abnormal blood cells from the bloodstream. A spleen is normally about the size of your fist. A doctor usually can't feel it during an exam. But diseases can cause it to swell and become many times its normal size. Because the spleen is involved in many functions, many conditions may affect it.

Skin Jiggers Removal Procedure
Skin Jiggers Removal Procedure hooda 133,426 Views • 3 years ago

Watch that Skin Jiggers Removal Procedure

What is Nightmare Disorder?
What is Nightmare Disorder? samer kareem 1,695 Views • 3 years ago

There can be a number of psychological triggers that cause nightmares in adults. For example, anxiety and depression can cause adult nightmares. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) also commonly causes people to experience chronic, recurrent nightmares. Nightmares in adults can be caused by certain sleep disorders

Ketamine
Ketamine samer kareem 1,171 Views • 3 years ago

Inducing anesthesia (lack of sensation or feeling) before surgery or certain procedures that do not require skeletal muscle relaxation. It may also be used for other conditions as determined by your doctor.

ACUTE PULMONARY EDEMA TREATMENT
ACUTE PULMONARY EDEMA TREATMENT samer kareem 2,814 Views • 3 years ago

Pulmonary edema is usually caused by a heart condition. Other causes include pneumonia, exposure to certain toxins and drugs, and being at high elevations. Depending on the cause, pulmonary edema symptoms may appear suddenly or develop over time. Mild to extreme breathing difficulty can occur. Cough, chest pain, and fatigue are other symptoms. Treatment generally includes supplemental oxygen and medications.

DIALYSIS
DIALYSIS samer kareem 2,647 Views • 3 years ago

Your kidneys are two bean-shaped organs that lie just below your rib cage, on each side of your spine. They remove waste from your body, level out your blood pressure, and keep your bones strong. They also ensure that you have the right amount of chemicals, like potassium and sodium (salt), in your blood. Finally, they make the hormone that causes your body to create red blood cells.

Carotid Endarterectomy
Carotid Endarterectomy samer kareem 1,552 Views • 3 years ago

A carotid endarterectomy is performed in a sterile surgical suite or standard operating room. You may go home the same day or stay 1–2 nights after the procedure depending on your medical condition. You receive a local anesthetic or general anesthesia. Your vascular surgeon makes an incision at the front of your neck. After removing the plaque from the artery your vascular surgeon repairs the artery by stitching in a natural graft (formed from a piece of vein from elsewhere in your body) or a woven patch. The incision is closed

Cardiovascular disease
Cardiovascular disease samer kareem 1,988 Views • 3 years ago

Instructional Video - Cardiovascular disease

ALPHA & BETA BLOCKERS
ALPHA & BETA BLOCKERS samer kareem 4,079 Views • 3 years ago

Alpha blockers relax certain muscles and help small blood vessels remain open. They work by keeping the hormone norepinephrine (noradrenaline) from tightening the muscles in the walls of smaller arteries and veins, which causes the vessels to remain open and relaxed. This improves blood flow and lowers blood pressure.

Draw Blood Samples
Draw Blood Samples Scott 16,425 Views • 3 years ago

Draw Blood Samples

Histology of Parotid Gland
Histology of Parotid Gland Histology 6,013 Views • 3 years ago

Histology of Parotid Gland

MACI Procedure for Knee Surgery
MACI Procedure for Knee Surgery Surgeon 144 Views • 3 years ago

Lattrell Wells was a perfect candidate for the MACI procedure. Dr. Michael O'Malley is a sports medicine surgeon at Carilion Clinic, "It’s a two stage procedure. So what we do is we actually harvest a small portion of the patient's cartilage and bone cells and we send it to a lab where the lab then that grows additional cartilage cells. It comes back to us in a little sheet and six weeks after that initial surgery, we re-implant the cartilage in a second surgery where we implant that sheet depending on the size of lesion right where his defect. This the only option where there’s virtually no risk of any kind of graft rejection or anything of that nature.

STILL'S Disease
STILL'S Disease samer kareem 3,843 Views • 3 years ago

Adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD) is a rare systemic inflammatory disease characterized by the classic triad of persistent high spiking fevers, joint pain, and a distinctive salmon-colored bumpy rash. The disease is considered a diagnosis of exclusion.

First Aid for a suspected Fracture
First Aid for a suspected Fracture samer kareem 1,942 Views • 3 years ago

First Aid for a suspected Fracture

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