Intrathecal administration of morphine produces intense analgesia, but it depresses respiration, an effect that can be life-threatening. Whether intrathecal morphine affects the ventilatory response ...

Oxygen saturation is a measure of the amount of hemoglobin that is bound to molecular oxygen at a given time point. It is an important parameter for managing patients in a clinical setup. Oxygen ...

1 Department of Intensive Medicine, Kailuan General Hospital, Tangshan, China 2 Hebei North University School of Graduate Studies, Zhangjiakou, China Background: Long-acting glucocorticoids are ...

Researchers have developed an online tool that can calculate the extent to which blood pressure medicines prescribed by a doctor will be effective, potentially allowing treatment to be tailored to ...

The last thing anyone wants to see is the oxygen masks dropping during the middle of their flight, especially because they ...

By virtue of its triple bond, acetylene burns hotter than any other common hydrocarbon when mixed with oxygen, but it isn’t ...

Unsure about what your blood pressure numbers mean? Don't know if they indicate high blood pressure or low blood pressure? If you have recently checked your blood pressure and know the top and bottom ...

A first-of-its-kind Blood Pressure Treatment Efficacy Calculator built on data from nearly 500 randomized clinical trials in over 100,000 people allows doctors to see how much different medications ...

All values must be entered in order to calculate percentiles for Blood Pressure and Height. A percentile shows the relative position of the child's measurement (such as Blood Pressure or Height) among ...

Climate change is a major driver of biodiversity erosion, and loss of biodiversity also accelerates climate change processes, as the capacity of degraded ecosystems to assimilate and store CO 2 tends ...