surgery - What is the difference between a percutaneous …
2017年4月25日 · I can find a number of percutaneous endoscopic procedures that do not appear to involve routing through a blood vessel. For example: percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy, percutaneous nephrolithitomy, percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy. Going through a blood vessel does not seem to be the distinguishing factor. –
How is nominal width of condoms related to penis girth?
2024年11月11日 · Additionally, penises are not cylindrical, and you're not going to be able to summarize "fit" in one number. I think it probably does not make sense to approach this question with the quantitative specificity you're looking for, it's more sensible to consider fit from the perception of each individual. –
cardiology - Why in left bundle branch block the wave for the ...
2024年10月14日 · As the left ventricle is depolarizing, the movement of current starts to approach towards becoming perpendicular to the axis of V1 and then reaches zero potential, either because it became fully perpendicular to the axis of V1, or because the …
Does plasmapheresis remove medications from the blood?
2024年6月29日 · Yes, plasmapheresis does remove medications from the patient. In fact, this approach is used to treat intoxication caused by medications (Cheng et al. 2017. PMID 28821193). However, Cheng and colleagues note:
How deep into the skin do topical acne medications penetrate?
2020年2月28日 · Percutaneous absorption of molecules is a step wise process involving: Penetration: The entry of a substance into a particular layer of the skin; Partitioning from the stratum corneum into the aqueous viable epidermis; Diffusion through the viable epidermis and into the upper dermis
cardiology - Clot-busting drugs versus balloon angioplasty for …
2015年7月16日 · Widimsky P, Bilkova D, Penicka M ym. Long-term outcomes of patients with acute myocardial infarction presenting to hospitals without catheterization laboratory and randomized to immediate thrombolysis or interhospital transport for primary percutaneous coronary intervention. Five years' follow-up of the PRAGUE-2 Trial. Eur Heart J 2007;28(6 ...
hospital - What's a patient's 'journey' (yuck) through A&E?
I suggest you get your employer to arrange for you to spend a few days observing in an actual A&E. You will be able to see the answers to these questions, the actual words the doctors and nurses use, and how they perform particular tasks (recording and communicating patient observations, deciding what room or cubicle to go to, telling a patient what room or cubicle to go to, and so on) with ...
heart disease - Surgery or angioplasty after angiography?
After angiography (done for episodes of anginal chest pains), how do doctors decide whether to go for angioplasty (balloon dilatation of blockages of arteries of heart) or surgery (coronary artery ...
Has anyone created any sensible theories why teenagers produce …
2013年7月17日 · We can approach mechanistic explanations, but it's rarely possible to identify whether something has an adaptive cause or is just a byproduct of something else. Biology isn't by design, it's by evolution, so a lot of things that don't make any sense from a design perspective make perfect sense once you're able to consider the evolutionary ...
sun exposure - How long does it take for the body to "reset" after ...
It's not as if "sunburn" involves a single pharmacokinetic process. And even though it seems like a question with practical utility, it's not really approaching the question from a direction that a medical scientist would be likely to approach. –