MOBILE PHONES & MEDICAL EQUIPMENTS

🔹Researchers at University of Amsterdam have recorded nearly 50 incidents of electromagnetic interference in hospitals and classified 75% of them as hazardous.

🔹Researchers are of the opinion that mobile phones should not come within 1 meter to hospital beds and equipment 

🔹They are likely to induce errors in the functioning of equipments such as Ventilators , Pacemakers , Syringe pumps etc

🔹They observed that the General Packet Radio Service ( GPRS ) signal generation technology that allows wireless internet access has been particularly associated with the problem 

🔹 More studies are needed to get more clear information about this issue.

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LOCAL ANESTHETICS : AMIDES & ESTERS

FUROSEMIDE , THIAZIDES & NSAIDs : A FEW FACTS❗️

⚜Furosemide is a loop diuretic

⚜It interferes with the concentrating capacity of the loop of Henle.

⚜It is effective in patients with renal dysfunction, whereas the thiazides are NOT.

⚜It potentiates the nephrotoxic effects of cephalosporins and the ototoxic effects of aminoglycosides.

⚜NSAIDs inhibit renal prostaglandin, causing sodium to be retained, which reduces the diuresis caused by furosemide.

⚜ Furosemide is a venous and arteriolar dilator and thus reduces both preload and afterload in a time frame just before the period of onset of a significant diuresis.