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A medical intervention done by introduction of a tube into an external or internal orifice of the body for removing and adding fluids, maintaining patent airway and for alternative feeding route.
A medical diagnostic test used to assess the function, specifically the ability of electrical conduction of the motor and sensory nerves. This can check various types of peripheral nervous system ...
A diagnostic test or procedure used to assess and record the electrical activity of muscles and nerve cells that control them. The signals are then analyzed in order to detect medical abnormalities.
Commonly known as arrhythmia or irregular heartbeat, is a term used to any condition in which the heart's electrical activity is malfunctioning causing the heart to beat too rapid, slow or ...
An elevated heart rhythm caused by rapid impulses from the pacemaker of the heart. It is a rate greater than the normal value of heart rate which is 60 to 100 beats per minute in adult and 140 to ...
Also known as postural hypotension, is a sudden drop in a person's blood pressure when changing positions such as standing up or stretching. It is cause by pooling of blood in the lower extremities ...
A decrease in the deep tendon reflexes' response time which can be generalized or regional, as a result from central nervous system injury or as an effect of metabolic disease.