Category: Medical Encyclopedia
Erythromycin is a macrolide antibiotic that inhibits bacterial protein synthesis and is effective against the same organisms as penicillin G. The drug is commonly used to treat community-acquired pulmonary …
Gastrointestinal , gi prophylaxis guidelines in the intensive care unit (ICU) is important in the prevention of stress gastritis. The incidence of clinically significant bleeding in critically ill patients …
The power of a study, usually presented as a percentage, is a measure of the probability that the null hypothesis is rejected when it is false. When interpreting study …
I was asked this question on Ask a Doctor that How Clinicians Judge a Test. Sensitivity and specificity are characteristics of diagnostic tests. They inform the provider how the test …
Shaping a differential diagnosis is a process of categorizing the probabilities of various diseases associated with the patient history and exam. The probability that a patient has the disease …
To make informed, evidence-based decisions, providers need to have an understanding of several statistical concepts. The clinical decision making process begins by assessing information by means of a history …
Measures of association are means of estimating the strength of the relationship between observed outcomes and factors that may produce the outcome. Common measures of association are the odds …
The main function of the pulmonary artery is to carry blood from the heart to the lungs. The pulmonary artery arises from the base of the right ventricle and …
The pulmonary artery wedge pressure or PWP is also referred to as the pulmonary capillary wedge pressure or PCWP. There are various instances when PWP is also referred to …
The pulmonary capillary wedge pressure has immense significance in treating heart diseases as it provides an indirect measure of the left atrial pressure and it is also very useful …