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Warfarin is a commonly used medication for the prevention and treatment of venous thromboembolism. It can be challenging for both the patient and the prescriber to manage at times.
Acute pulmonary oedema is a life threatening emergency that requires immediate intervention with a management plan and an evidence based treatment protocol.
Chronic heart failure (CHF) is an increasingly common condition with increasing prevalence in the aging population. It has a significant mortality and is associated with a high incidence of hospitalisation and morbidity.
Single completion itemsDIRECTIONS Each of the questions or incomplete statements below is followed by five suggested answers or completions. Select the most appropriate statement as your answer.
Increasing numbers of people are travelling to places at high altitude. In 2013, more than 100 million people visited altitudes that could lead to altitude illness.1 Since the first scaling of Mount Everest in 1953, the number of trekkers annually in the surrounding Sagarmatha National Park has...
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines. – Paracelsus1Harms of prescribingPrescribing medicine is a very common activity in Australian general practice, occurring at a rate...
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