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Mary was a healthy woman in her early fifties with a diagnosis of a mild hypertension. She was a mother of four and her life was always under the routine of the family duties. But that morning, something was going to happen. Continue reading The red color. Chapter 1
When a person has a health problem , the first contact with a health facility could be your personal doctor , your general practitioner (common in socialized health services), or the Emergency Continue reading A quick communication about a first impression of the patient is a good practice
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We left Dr. Adolf very worried about a clinical decision: he switched fosfomycin and gentamicin to a cephalosporin in a patient with a urinary infection and an allergy to penicillin. He was out of the hospital trying to reach the intern or the nurses in charge of the patient, but without any answer. Continue reading Dr. Adolf and the case of allergy to penicillin. Chapter 2.
Thoracentesis is a clinical procedure with two indications, the first one diagnosis, to know the characteristics of the liquid and to obtain a sample for biochemistry, cytology and a culture, and in the second place a therapeutic goal, to allow a normal ventilatory expansion of the lung .
Usually is a safe procedure and the adverse events are related to the possibility of bleeding , pneumothorax and pain. The tube has to be closed after an amount of liquid is extracted , usually around half a liter every eight hours.
Technical problems: there are some problems associated with the procedure such as an obstruction to the flow and a problem with the insertion.
There is an important detail to keep the procedure on.
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The tube needs to be cleaned almost every eight hours to maintain the permeability
During the morning, Adolf,the doctor, was attending to a patient with an urinary infection in relation to Escherichia coli. The patient was allergic to penicillins and the culture showed sensitivity to Gentamicin, Fosfomycin and Cephalosporin. The treatment for the Continue reading Dr.Adolf and the case of allergy to penicillin. Chapter 1.
There are several brands of pencils of insulin, with different activity and different concentration. There is a common bad practice when a single pen is used for several patients with a risk of overdose because different pencils can have different concentration and also the risk of contamination increases with every manipulation.
