Erythromycin prokinetic agent
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 …
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GI prophylaxis guidelines
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 …
Power of a study
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 …
How Clinicians Judge a Test
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 …
Prior probability
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 …
Clinical decision making
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 …
Absolute risk reduction and How Clinicians know Whether their Treatments Will Work
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 …
Pulmonary Artery
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 …
Pulmonary artery wedge Pressure
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 …
Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure
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 …