Medicine
- Knee Dislocation Treatment Information
- A knee dislocation occurs when the bones that form your knee are out of place. The problem usually occurs toward the outside of the leg. Knee dislocations are rare. They usually happen only after major trauma, including falls, car crashes, and other...
- Kawasaki's Disease Treatment Information
- Kawasaki disease (KD) is a febrile illness of childhood. It involves inflammation of the blood vessels. Kawasaki disease occurs most frequently in Japan, where the disease was first discovered. It affects more than 4000 children each year. Eighty pe...
- Isoniazid Toxicity Treatment Information
- Isonicotinic acid hydrazide, commonly called isoniazid (INH), is an antimicrobial agent that was used to treat tuberculosis (TB). The toxic response of the body to the substance, perhaps by allergic reaction or overdose. Inuits and American Indians...
- Intussusception Treatment Information
- Intussusception is a rare but dangerous for young children, usually between the ages of 3 months to 6 years. Invagination is the most common cause of intestinal obstruction in children. Intussusception is rare in adults. Most cases of intussusceptio...
- Inhalational Injury Treatment Information
- Inhalation injury is a vague term used to describe a wide range of problems and lung airways in the context of thermal damage. Inhalation injury in 3 ways: (1) by the cells of the pulmonary parenchyma, injuries and damage caused by irritants, (2) hy...
- Infant Botulism Treatment Information
- Infant botulism is an illness that can occur when a newborn ingests bacteria that produce a toxin inside the body. Infant Botulism affects infants primarily between one and 52 weeks of age. The condition can be frightening because it can cause muscl...
- Hypovolemia Treatment Information
- Hypovolemia (also hypovolaemia) is a state of decreased blood volume; more specifically, decrease in volume of blood plasma. Blood loss can be due to bleeding from cuts or other injury or internal bleeding such as gastrointestinal tract bleeding. Lo...
- Hypothermia Treatment Information
- Hypothermia describes a condition in which the body's mechanism for regulating the temperature is overwhelmed in the face of a cold stressful. Signs and symptoms of hypothermia can include gradual loss of mental and physical abilities. Serious Hypot...
- Hypomagnesemia Treatment Information
- Hypomagnesemia is a technical way of saying that the Magnesium level in the blood is too low. Magnesium (Mg) is the second-most abundant intracellular cation and, overall, the fourth-most abundant cation. Magnesium is one of many electrolytes in you...