Labs, Imaging, and Studies During Preoperative Risk Assessment

HealthCare

Get a pregnancy test for every woman who can be pregnant. Use the estimated risk of a major adverse cardiac event (from RCRI, ACS-SRC, or another calculator) to categorize patients into low-risk or higher-risk. Further work-up is determined by the patient’s risk...

Hypertension in a Cocaine Intoxicated Patient

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“In patients with cocaine-induced chest pain and hypertension, initial management with an intravenous benzodiazepine can relieve chest pain and produce beneficial cardiac hemodynamic effects. In addition, by reducing the central stimulatory effects of cocaine,...

Rebound hypertension

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Rebound hypertension occurs when blood pressure rises after you stop taking or lower the dose of a drug (typically a medicine to lower high blood pressure). This is common for medicines that block the sympathetic nervous system like beta-blockers and clonidine....

Hypertension Medications in Gout

HealthCare, Pharmacy and Therapeutics

“Compatible with their urate lowering properties, calcium channel blockers and losartan are associated with a lower risk of incident gout among people with hypertension. By contrast, diuretics, β blockers, angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, and...

Converting Vitamin D doses from mcg to IU and vice versa

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To convert Vitamin D: From IU to mcg: IU/40 = mcg For example: 400 IU/40 = 10 mcg From mcg to IU: mcg * 40 =IU i.e. 400 IU of Vitamin = 10 mcg of Vitamin D Source:...

Teen Defies Mother’s Anti-Vaccination Ideas

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