This post is part of case discussion section for informing and improving the patients management. Today I received a patient with hypertension and was having symptoms like headache. I tried to discuss the case with various doctors of different departments and...
Eye drops are pharmacological compounds which are available in liquid form for direct usage on eyes instead of systemic medicines. Benefit? well this way maximum medicine is available directly to the eyes, in minimum time duration too! However, it’s important to...
Glucose fever refers to the high grade fever resulting from hyperglycemia (or glucose infusion usually). In this article, we’ll discuss the common condition in which we can find the glucose fever and the ones incorrectly labelled by some as glucose fever....
Sorry to ruin your evening, the new is fake. Yes you heard it right, the news about the “Trusted” media and “trusted” website probably ran by kids who don’t know how to confirm some news is Fake. First ebola patient in...
There is sometimes confusion among medical students that what’s the difference between the thrombolytic agents, fibrinolytic agents and the anticoagulants. In this article we’ll study the difference between them and also learn which drugs or agents perform each of these actions....
This post simply summarizes drugs used in ventricular tachycardia and supra-ventricular tachycardia. Note: this post is meant to give a brief quick review for when to use amiodrone, verapamil, lidocaine and adenosine. Drugs used in Ventricular Tachycardia (VT) Lidocaine: It’s drug...
March and April are the months of pollen allergy in Islamabad, Pakistan. The influx of patients to the emergency department with aggravated asthma in these months is too high. P.I.M.S (Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences) has set up a seperate allergy...
Various cell lines and their variations in complete blood picture has their significance in determining the type of infection or reaction going on in the body. Eosinophils are usually indicative of any allergic reaction going on in the body. Significance of...
Have you ever heard “shift to left” in diagnostic criteria of some disease (e.g appendicits – mantrels scoring system). Let’s discuss what’s exactly meant by this term, shift to left. What is meant by left shift neutrophils First of all we...
Although not applicable in all cases, neutrophils count in acute infection can be indicative of a bacterial or a viral infection. Note as I mentioned it’s not applicable in all cases and all patients. So use this as supportive finding along...
