Archives mensuelles: April 2015
Psychiatric Glossary of Terms
* Aboulie: Loss of control (feeling of indecision and impotence)
* Abreaction (Or catharsis) sudden release, discharge emotionally repressed emotional content
* Anhedonia: Lack of pleasure
*...
Some Psychiatric Notes
1- dysarthria tremor syndrome is seen during treatment with older antidepressants (amitriptyline, imipramine ...)
2- The morbid rationalism cold thought, pseudologique, schizophrenia sign
3- Delirium has...
Ankylosing Spondylitis
* Also called ankylosing spondylitis. It affects mainly men (3 of 4) begins in the subject young between 18 and 30 years.
Can begun in...
Spondyloarthropathy
1- Reactive arthritis:
* These are mono or trace aseptic arthritis following an episode of infection or genital tract which they are separated by 3...
Bacterial Spondylodiscitis
* The diagnosis should be considered in any acute or sub-acute pain of the spine with segmental stiffness and a fortiori associated fever or...
Idiopathic Scoliosis
The backbone of the normal subject when standing, horizontal basin:
- In the frontal plane, is projected along a rectilinear and vertical axis;
- In the...
Stroke – Haemorrhagic
1- Clinical pictures:
* Lens capsular hemorrhage (deep hematoma UCS):
- Acute onset with headache and quickly disorders of consciousness; Hemiplegia + conjugate deviation of the...
Electrocardiogram – ECG
Speed = 25mm / sec => 1cm = 0.4 sec (x-axis)
Amplitude of 1 cm / mV => 1cm = 1mV (ordinate)
Normal values:
P wave ->...
Pericarditis ECG
Developments in 4 stages:
Stage I:
Subepicardial injury: ST segment elevation in upper concavity, early, fleeting, not including the T wave, positive.
Stage II (2nd week):
ST return...
Myocardial Infarction ECG
* The non-Q wave infarction: IDM Nontransmural, has no Q-wave Contains intense as ST depression or T wave ischemia (sustainable). With increase in cardiac...
