MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'digoxin'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:40:01 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4419146&cid=t_180223_88_f&fid=38129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emergencyweb.net%2Flibrary%2Fmp3.php%3Ff%3Dviolenceeditv2.mp3 The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care (Source: Life in the Fast Lane) Life in the Fast Lane blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4419146 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 06:14:07 +0100 4419146 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4360988&cid=t_180223_88_f&fid=38129&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Flifeinthefastlane%2FWZHV%2F%7E3%2FriBDX0JD8EA%2F Another crazy night in the ED... One of the nurses hands you this ECG. "Will you take a look at this guy? He doesn't look so well..." Can you recognize and treat this life-threatening tachyarrhythmia? (Source: Life in the Fast Lane) Life in the Fast Lane blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4360988 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:16:42 +0100 4360988 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3545452&cid=t_180223_105_f&fid=38964&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdrwes.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F05%2Fplaying-house-md.html From one of our local affiliate cardiologists: A patient in the hospital told me he had a "drawer full of meds" at home but didn't know their names. I asked his wife to bring them in so we could look at them.She did.Good thing he didn't store the medications in the refrigerator...-Wesh/t: Dr. Micah Eimer on Facebook (used with permission)Addendum: From a follow-up e-mail:"Btw in that drawer were two scripts for dig(oxin)- he was taking both explaining the visual changes and complete heart block." Musings of a cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist. (Source: Dr. Wes) Dr. Wes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3545452 Fri, 07 May 2010 22:09:00 +0100 3545452 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3519482&cid=t_180223_105_f&fid=38964&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdrwes.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F04%2Flunatics.html keep re-discovering digoxin:William Withering ... moved in 1762 to Edinburgh, Scotland, to study medicine, and qualified MD in 1766 after submitting a thesis entitled ‘De Angina Gangraenosa’ (Malignant Putrid Sore Throat). Withering moved back to England in 1767, and established a private practice in Stafford, and also worked as a physician at the Stafford Infirmary. Unexpectedly, in 1775, he was invited to go to Birmingham to join the staff of the General Hospital there, where he was to work for the next seventeen years.During his time at Birmingham Withering published his major work on the foxglove (Digitalis) - "An account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses" (Withering 1785)...... Withering was encouraged by his membership of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, which met onc... Dr. Wes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3519482 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:30:00 +0100 3519482 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2063357&cid=t_180223_88_f&fid=38203&url=http%3A%2F%2Fprecordialthump.medbrains.net%2F2008%2F12%2F23%2Fanyone-seen-this-before%2F A 93 year-old woman was brought in by ambulance from a nursing home after 2 days of “not being her usual self”. She also had suffered from diarrhoea for 2 days and had not passed urine at all during the day of presentation. She looked dry and her blood pressure was 95/55 mmHg. But she remained incredibly chirpy and seemed to be enjoying the trip to hospital! A venous gas showed K 7.6 mM and Creatinine 436 mM. This was her ECG: Absent P waves and peaked T waves consistent with hyperkalemia, right?.. Look closely there are retrograde P waves that follow the QRS! After treatment with 10 mmol calcium gluconate IV, 10 units rapid-acting insulin  IV, 50 mL of 50% glucose IV, 5 mg nebulised salbutamol, and 500 mL normal saline her ECG was repeated: Back to sinus rhythm... the T waves... AEQUANIMITAS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2063357 Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:36:52 +0100 2063357 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1407371&cid=t_180223_117_f&fid=36026&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fzimney%2Fdigoxin-tablets-recalled-over-safety-concerns%2F There’s important news for people who take digoxin, which is a heart medicine also known as digitalis that is most often prescribed for the heart rhythm disturbances called atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter. It is less commonly used to treat heart failure. A nationwide recall of all lots of certain generic brands of digoxin, was announced on April 25, 2008 by the drug’s manufacturer, a company called Actavis Totowa, which was formerly known as Amide Pharmaceuticals. And to make matters more complex, the product is distributed by Mylan Pharmaceuticals as Digitek and by UDL Laboratories as Bertek. The problem is that some digoxin tablets made by Actavis may contain twice the amount of active ingredient as they are supposed to. This is of particular concern because digitalis toxicity... Dr. Z's Medical Report blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1407371 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:26:04 +0100 1407371