Category: Medical Articles

Medical articles – Written by experienced medical teachers for medical students and residents. This has various categories including clinical methods, clinical medicine, emergency medicine and others.
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Oxygen supplementation during emergencies is a life-saving treatment. The atmospheric air contains 21% oxygen, which is inadequate for those with some types of breathlessness. We can enhance the amount of oxygen delivered to a...
It is critical to have no doubts and confusions about the essential emergency drugs in intensive care units (ICU). Here is a quick reference chart that you may want to download, print and display...
Warfarin is one of the most commonly used oral anticoagulants. It is a vitamin-K antagonist (VKA) that has a narrow therapeutic index. While the newer oral anticoagulants (NOAC) like dabigatran, apixaban, and rivaroxaban are...
Auscultation of breath sounds is one of the most essential and useful clinical techniques for evaluating a patient’s respiratory pathology. You will find the description of various respiratory auscultation findings with audio examples in this article....
Apex beat is the palpable cardiac apical impulse. It is the lowermost and outermost (most lateral and most inferior) prominent cardiac pulsation in the precordium. Examination of this cardiac impulse can give valuable inputs...