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  • Sepsis (category Emergency Medicine)
    Sepsis is a concept dealing with the body's response to infection. The definition of sepsis has historically changed over time. The definition recommended
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  • Pain (category Emergency Medicine)
    Pain is a subjective unpleasant sensation mediated by the afferent nervous system and the cerebral cortex, related to possible or actual tissue damage
    11 KB (1,241 words) - 22:26, 22 November 2023
  • Dyspnea (category Emergency medicine)
    Shortness of breath (dyspnoea) is a very common subjective symptom of many diseases. The patient describes it either as a feeling of lack of air or difficult
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  • Convulsions (category Emergency medicine)
    Such convulsions or cramps are called uncontrolled tonic or clonic spasms of the muscles that unlike fibrillation (a muscle contraction wihtnout a locomotor
    5 KB (551 words) - 18:38, 18 November 2020
  • Laryngospasm (category Emergency Medicine)
    Choking Urgent conditions in pneumology Template:Acute CHILD, P.. Internal Medicine. 2. edition. Prague : Galén, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7262-496-6. G., Barash –
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  • Tracheostomy (category Emergency medicine)
    coniotomy – cutting lig. conicum(membrana cricothyroidea), a method of emergency securing of the airways and is replaced by a tracheostomy as quickly as
    10 KB (1,349 words) - 22:22, 15 November 2022
  • PEEP (category Emergency medicine)
    80-7345-059-3. KASAL, Eduard. Basics of anesthesiology, resuscitation, emergency medicine and intensive care for medical schools. 51. edition. Praha : Karolinum
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  • Cardiac tamponade (category Emergency medicine)
    Cardiac tamponade is an acute, life-threatening condition that without urgent treatment leads to failure of the heart as a pump and thus to patients death
    8 KB (946 words) - 00:38, 21 January 2023
  • Anaphylaxis (category Emergency medicine)
    history of severe anaphylactic reaction after discharge are provided with an emergency package in case of re-exposure to the antigen. The package should contain
    12 KB (1,417 words) - 21:37, 13 November 2023
  • Acute respiratory distress syndrome (category Emergency Medicine)
    This article is about acute lung injury in adults (ARDS). Disability in premature infants (RDS) is discussed in the article Respiratory distress syndrome
    4 KB (433 words) - 21:41, 2 October 2023
  • takes tens of seconds. There is no contraindication to examination in emergency medicine. CT is widely used in diagnostics and also for therapeutic procedures
    5 KB (771 words) - 10:51, 19 May 2024
  • Difficult intubation (category Emergency medicine)
    A condition where we need more than three attempts for routine laryngoscopy and intubation or it takes more than 10 minutes. Difficult laryngoscopy: if
    5 KB (581 words) - 15:44, 26 November 2022
  • Coniotomy (category Emergency Medicine)
    SAKLES, John C. Emergency cricothyrotomy (cricothyroidotomy) [online]. UpToDate, [cit. 2020-05-22]. <https://www.uptodate.com/contents/emergency-cricothyro
    6 KB (784 words) - 22:20, 22 November 2023
  • Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (category Emergency Medicine)
    A systemic inflammatory response of the organism (SIRS, systemic inflammatory response syndrome) indicates a condition characterized by two or more of
    2 KB (90 words) - 13:27, 10 November 2023
  • Defibrillation (category Emergency Medicine)
    defibrillators are used primarily in hospitals, outpatient clinics, and emergency medical service trips. Thanks to the battery power supply, portable versions
    10 KB (1,165 words) - 17:55, 25 April 2024
  • Pleural puncture (pediatrics) (category Emergency Medicine)
    Urgent indication pneumothorax, especially tension. Execution child is in a supine position; if there is time, we will perform adequate analgosedation;
    4 KB (332 words) - 22:35, 22 November 2023
  • Dissection of the thoracic aorta (category Emergency Medicine)
    Dissection of the thoracic aorta is a sudden vascular event with a dramatic course, immediately threatening life. Splitting of the aortic wall caused by
    8 KB (875 words) - 22:20, 22 November 2023
  • Craniocerebral trauma (category Emergency Medicine)
    Trauma to the skull and brain can result in death or severe permanent damage to an individual. They occur independently or are part of polytraumas. The
    21 KB (2,511 words) - 16:30, 30 August 2022
  • Pericardiocentesis (pediatrics) (category Emergency Medicine)
    Pericardiocentesis is performed for diagnostic or therapeutic reasons. The safest way to perform pericardial puncture is under echocardiographic control
    4 KB (561 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2021
  • Artificial lung ventilation (category Emergency Medicine)
     [cit. 2018-03-21]. <https://www.msdmanuals.com/professional/critical-care-medicine/respiratory-failure-and-mechanical-ventilation/overview-of-mechanical-ventilation#>
    24 KB (2,995 words) - 23:16, 2 December 2022
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