Emergency Medicine

Stridor

Submitted by Nishanth_koda on Wed, 01/06/2011 - 21:30
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Sleep apnoea syndrome: More than 30 episodes of apnoea during 8hrs of sleep.
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Pulmonary Embolism

Submitted by GMCT on Sun, 23/01/2011 - 00:42
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D-dimer is elevated in 90% of patients with Pulmonary embolism and Deep venous thrombosis.
In chest radiography, the Westermark sign represents a focus of oligemia seen distal to a pulmonary embolus.
Hampton's hump seen in pulmonary embolism, is a radiologic sign which consists of a shallow wedge-shaped opacity in the periphery of the lung with it's base against the pleural surface.
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