May 7, 2016 · My 15 mo old son is in hospital for hypoglacemia. The critical sample discovered he has ketones in his blood. What does ketonic hypoglacemia mean? I have a friend who has been diagnosed with legionnaires disease and is in the critical care department of a local hospital. Is this a disease that is mandated to be reported to the (u.S.) cdc?

Condition: Grave or moribund condition is used to describe a condition where recovery is not expected. Critical condition is used when a patient is unstable and will not live without a significant amount of intervention but has a resonable chance of recovery.

what does "critical vs grave" condition mean?: Condition: Grave or moribund condition is used to describe a condition

Apr 25, 2014 · Critical care and intensive care are both used to describe a unit or medical specialty in which seriously ill or injured people receive care. These units may be general critical care or intensive care units that care for a wide variety of conditions, or neonatal, pediatric, adult, cardiac, surgical. Or neurosugical units.

May 23, 2014 · ICU: Hi. The intensive care unit may be run by various specialists: medical ICU is usually run by pulmonary critical care, cardiac ICU is run by cardiology, surgical ICU is run by anesthesiologists with surgical input, pediatric ICU and neonatal ICU are run by pediatric intensivists, neurological ICU is run by neurological intensivists.

May 9, 2019 · Location matters: 9 mm is relatively big for a kidney stone. If it is lodged in your the tube that the urine travels in to get to your bladder (ureter), it would probably block it and cause potential complications and EXTREME pain.

Jul 26, 2014 · It can have a slightly excitatory effect, so conceivably taking the second dose in the evening might interfere with your sleep, so just see how it goes. Due to it's long half-life, blood levels won't fluctuate much at all and it wouldn't be critical to …

Dec 14, 2020 · Specializes in Pulmonary Critical Care Any number of things: A high d-dimer just means that the body's clotting system has been activated. Of course, clots can do it, but a great many other things - like infections, trauma, cancer, etc - can cause an elevated d-dimer.

having colonoscopy next week. is it critical that low dose aspirin, fish oil, multivitamin, and vitamin c be discontinued 7 days in advance?: Yes If Told Not: The Aspirin and fish oil both can thin your blood and

Jul 21, 2014 · Specializes in Pediatric Critical Care Varies: Different bacteria produce bacterial meningitis, so there is not a universal answer to this question. Nevertheless, usually close contact with human secretions is necessary to produce meningitis.