Atrioventricular Block

Thirddegree AV block

Bundle Branch and Fascicular Block

Sinus Node Dysfunction

Sinus node dysfunction refers to a number of conditions producing physiologically inappropriate atrial rates. Symptoms may be minimal or include weakness, palpitations, and syncope. Diagnosis is by...

Vasodilators

Vasodilation refers to the widening of blood vessels resulting from relaxation of smooth muscle cells within the vessel walls, particularly in the large arteries, smaller arterioles and large veins....

Collide-a-scape » Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> A Tale of Two Sciences

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Friday Weird Science: How much sun could a good beard block if a good beard could block sun?

It’d block the sun that a good beard could block if a good beard could block sun*Sci is at Neurotic Physiology today, looking a study oh how much UV radiation protection you really get from a...

‘Sensory’ block promise for postop knee pain

Using adductor canal block rather than femoral nerve block for analgesia after knee surgery could minimize muscle weakness and risk for falls, a study in Anesthesiology suggests.

Crop Wars: Discover magazine and the anti-GMO movement

A Rebuttal : Collide-a-Scape.   Keith Kloor;: “When I drew attention to the piece via Twitter yesterday, there was near instantaneous shock and outrage to it from some scientists. Other...

Teleflex introduces new continuous peripheral nerve block catheter

Teleflex Incorporated has introduced a new continuous peripheral nerve block catheter for clinicians who use ultrasound-guidance when placing nerve block catheters.

Neusoft strikes CT marketing deal with Block Imaging

Neusoft Medical Systems USA has agreed to allow Block Imaging to market its NeuViz line of CT scanners in the U.S.  -More- 

Heart Block Patients Benefit From Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

Results may lead to reassessment of treatment recommendations for heart failure patients who need pacemakers, says UB chair of medicine, who led the Block HF clinical trial Heart failure patients with...

Pelvic plexus block effective for prostate biopsy-related pain

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For pain control during transrectal prostate biopsy, a pelvic plexus block (PPB) is more effective than a periprostatic nerve block, according to an Italian paper in th...

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Nerve conduction block using combined thermoelectric cooling and high frequency electrical stimulation.

Conduction block of peripheral nerves is an important technique for many basic and applied neurophysiology studies. To date, there has not been a technique which provides a quickly initiated and rever...

A Clinical Evaluation of Block Characteristics Using One Milliliter 2% Lidocaine in Ultrasound-Guided Axillary Brachial Plexus Block.

We report onset and duration of ultrasound-guided axillary brachial plexus block using 1 mL of 2% lidocaine with 1:200,000 epinephrine per nerve (total local anesthetic volume 4 mL). Block performance...

Self-assembly of dendritic-linear block copolymers with fixed molecular weight and block ratio.

Block copolymers built on a dendritic block having fixed molecular weight but different number of peripheral PEG chains were synthesised. At a fixed block ratio, these block copolymers exhibited topol...

Polysiloxane-backbone block copolymers in a one-pot synthesis: a silicone platform for facile functionalization.

Block copolymers consisting exclusively of a silicon-oxygen backbone are synthesized by sequential anionic ring-opening polymerization of different cyclic siloxane monomers. After formation of a poly(...