We report seven cases of dissection of the abdominal aorta. Three patients had acute back pain, whereas four patients had more chronic courses. In six cases, as a result of the palpation of a pulsatile abdominal mass,
clinical diagnosis was an atheromatous aneurysm. Angiography and CT scanning demonstrated a dissected abdominal aorta and a normal thoracic aorta. Six patients with an infrarenal dissection were treated by replacement of the aorta with a Dacron prothesis, and one patient with an suprarenal dissection was treated conservatively. With a mean follow-up of 3 years, all patients were alive and free of symptoms. These...
Friday, November 25, 2011
Total Abdominal Hysterectomy
Abdominal hysterectomy is a surgical action that removes your uterus through an cavity in your lower abdomen. Your uterus — or abyss — is area a babyish grows if you're pregnant. Sometimes a hysterectomy includes abatement of one or both ovaries and fallopian tubes. Hysterectomy is one of the best accepted surgical procedures amid women.
Hysterectomy can additionally be performed through an cavity in the vagina (vaginal hysterectomy) or by a laparoscopic or automatic surgical access — which uses laparoscopic instruments anesthetized through baby belly incisions. Belly hysterectomy may be recommended over added...
Lasik Surgery - 3D Medical Animation Video
What is LASIK?
The eye and eyes errorsThe genitalia of the eye. Indicated are the conjunctiva, sclera, choroid, optic nerve, retina, alcove angle, lens, cilary body, brittle humor, aqueous humor, iris, pupil, cornea.
The cornea is a allotment of the eye that helps focus ablaze to actualize an angel on the retina. It works in abundant the aforementioned way that the lens of a camera focuses ablaze to actualize an angel on film. The angle and absorption of ablaze is additionally accepted as refraction. Usually the appearance of the cornea and the eye are not absolute and the angel on the retina is out-of-focus (blurred)...
Knee Replacement Surgery Video
Who Needs Knee Backup Surgery?
A being may appetite to accede knee backup anaplasty if they accept a stiff, aching knee that prevents them from assuming alike the simplest of activities and added treatments are no best working.
What Happens During Knee Backup Surgery?
Once you are beneath accepted anesthesia (meaning you are briefly put to sleep), spinal, or epidural (numb beneath the waist) anesthesia, an eight- to twelve-inch cut is fabricated in the advanced of the knee. The damaged allotment of the collective is removed from the apparent of the bones, and the surfaces are again shaped to authority a metal...
Auscultation of the heart VIDEO
Introduction
Auscultation is an capital allotment of alike a brief cardiac exam. Listening to the affection you can accumulate advice about the 1) amount and rhythm, 2) amount activity (e.g. stenosis, regurgitation/insufficiency), and 3) anatomical defects (e.g. atrial septal defects, ventricular septal birthmark (VSD), hypertrophy).?
In anecdotic and documenting a murmur, you should be able to characterize 4 backdrop of an “abnormal” affection sound:
-The area of the affection complete on the chest (i.e. area is it heard loudest and area you can apprehend the complete at all).
-The timing of the affection complete (i.e. aboriginal...
ECG Leads Placement
ECG Lead Placement
The arrangement of accession of leads for assuming a 12-lead ECG is universal. This helps to ensure that, back a person's ECGs are compared, any changes on the ECG are due to cardiac injury, not a aberration in adjustment of leads, this is acutely important with the accretion use of adopted travel. There are accepted standards in abode throughout the world.
Interpretation of the allegation can alter from doctor to doctor but methods for accepting the advice are the aforementioned the apple over.
These positions may alter hardly back a accommodating is on connected cardiac monitoring. The leads...
How to read ECG Videos
Contents: Introduction, PQRST Terminology, The 12 leads, Cardiac cycle. Estimation of PQRST Patterns: Calcuation of rate, Axis deviation, Atrial hypertrophy, Ventricular Hypertrophy, Bundle Branch Blocks, Myocardial Infarct, Myocardial Ischaemia, WPW Syndrome. Rhythm Abnormalities: Classification, Premature beats, Sinus Pause, Sinus rhythms, Atrial rhythms, Ventricular rhythms, AVBlocks. Effect of Drugs & Electrolytes: Digitalis, Potassium, Calcium, Quinidine. Systematic estimation of ECGs. ST-T changes: ST depression, ST elevation, T beachcomber inversion, Tall T waves. Revision
First video
How to read ECG Video Part -1
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ECG dancing
I aboriginal saw this some years ago at uni. It demonstrates the arrangement of contest during assorted cardiac episodes. It is the badgers nadgers!
The assistant uses his accoutrements to simulate the two top accommodation of the heart…the Atria. He uses his legs to simulate the two lower accommodation of the heart…the Ventricles.
So the atria arrangement calm followed by the ventricles application calm and claret is pumped about the body.
When apparent on an ECG (electrocardiogram…EKG in the USA) the contractions of the affection are apparent as the electrical impulses that accomplish the cardiac beef to move. These...
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Pulmonary Angiography
Indications
Suspected Pulmonary Embolism
Discordant VQ Scan and Clinical picture
Advantage
Gold standard for diagnosing Pulmonary Embolism
Sensitivity: 98%
Disadvantage
Mortality 0.1 - 0.5% (especially in unstable patients)
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Chest X-ray Interpretation
What is a chest X-ray?
A chest X-ray is exposing the chest briefly to
radiation
to produce an image of the chest and the organs in the chest.
An X-ray film is positioned against the body opposite the camera,and there is two view anterior-posterior and lateral view. which
sends
out a small dose of a radiation beam. As the radiation penetrates
the chest wall,
it is absorbed in varying amounts by different body tissues depending on
the tissue's composition of air, water, blood, bone, or muscle. Bones, for
example, absorb much of the X-ray radiation while lung tissue (which is filled with
mostly air) absorbs very little, allowing...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Ct Scan Chest
What is CT Scanning of the Chest?
CT scanning—sometimes alleged CAT scanning—is a noninvasive medical analysis that helps physicians analyze and amusement medical conditions.
CT scanning combines adapted x-ray accessories with adult computers to aftermath assorted images or pictures of the central of the body. These cross-sectional images of the breadth actuality advised can again be advised on a computer monitor, printed or transferred to a CD.
CT scans of centralized organs, bones, bendable tissue and claret argosy accommodate greater accuracy and acknowledge added capacity than approved x-ray exams.
Using a array...
Breech presentation C-Section
Breech Presentation
Breech presentation is defined as a fetus in a longitudinal lie with the buttocks or feet closest to the cervix. This occurs in 3-4% of all deliveries. The percentage of breech deliveries decreases with advancing gestational age from 22% of births prior to 28 weeks' gestation to 7% of births at 32 weeks' gestation to 1-3% of births at term
There are boundless fears surrounding vaginal commitment of the backside presentation and a abridgement of admonition about accessible on safe vaginal commitment of a breech. There is additionally a abridgement of bluntness about the risks of caesarean area and...
Nasal Irrigator and nasal irrigation
Breathe accessible and easy with Nasaline from ENTpro. The easy, comfortable, and safe adjustment to adulterate your nasal cavities with acrid band-aid to finer amusement affection associated with colds, the flu, allergies or sinusitis.
Nasaline is a nasal rinsing accessory acclimated to decongest and cesspool blocked nasal passages finer abrasion abroad exceptionable mucous, band secretions, or allergens to advice accommodate abatement from affection associated with allergies, colds, the flu or sinus-related infections. All accustomed - Nasaline is the safe, able way to...
Eye Fish Hook Removal
In this video you will see how to remove fish hook penetrating the cornea of the eye by video step by step.
first is corneal section and insertion of lens glide and you can enlarge the entry to remove this fish hook you can follow this video
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topic: Removal of a foreign body from the eye (fish hook)
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Pupil examination video
Pupillary Abnormalities
Their Recognition and Diagnosis
Starting With The Basics:
Evaluating a patients pupils starts back you aboriginal accommodated the patient. You are actuality accomplished to be a actual adroit observer. Therefore, the patient's adherent admeasurement and adequation are article you should mentally agenda and beam in the cat-and-mouse room. Furthermore, you should agenda the way the accommodating walks, carries their head, their accent pattern, facial features, e.g., scars, lip soars, bloom of their eyes, anatomical area of their eyes, etc. These observations could advice adviser the administration of your...