ALLMedicine™ Digoxin Level Center

Jun 28th, 2022 - Approach Considerations Serum electrolytes, calcium, and magnesium levels should be checked. A digoxin level should be obtained for patients on digoxin. Cardiac biomarker testing is indicated for any patient with suspected myocardial ischemia. Myo...

Jun 28th, 2022 - Approach Considerations Serum electrolytes, calcium, and magnesium levels should be checked. A digoxin level should be obtained for patients on digoxin. Cardiac biomarker testing is indicated for any patient with suspected myocardial ischemia. Myo...

Apr 4th, 2022 - Methods: Patients with resectable pancreatic cancer will be treated with oxaliplatin 85 mg/m² IV over 2 hours, irinotecan 150 mg/m² given concurrently with folinic acid 400 mg/m² IV over 90 min, followed by a 46-hour infusion of 5-fluorouracil 240...

Dec 14th, 2021 - Practice Essentials Hyperkalemia is defined as a serum potassium concentration greater than approximately 5.0-5.5 mEq/L in adults; the range in infants and children is age-dependent. Levels higher than 7 mEq/L can lead to significant hemodynamic a...

Dec 14th, 2021 - Approach Considerations Ascertain whether the elevated potassium level is real or factitious (see DDx). In a patient who does not have a predisposition to hyperkalemia, repeat the blood test before taking any actions to bring down the potassium le...

Apr 4th, 2022 - Methods: Patients with resectable pancreatic cancer will be treated with oxaliplatin 85 mg/m² IV over 2 hours, irinotecan 150 mg/m² given concurrently with folinic acid 400 mg/m² IV over 90 min, followed by a 46-hour infusion of 5-fluorouracil 240...

Jul 7th, 2015 - Digoxin is a cardiac glycoside prescribed in heart failure and certain supraventricular tachyarrhythmias. It exerts a positive inotropic, neurohormonal, and electro physiologic actions on the heart . For heart failure patients, the targeted steady...

Mar 9th, 2018 - Primary care clinicians, by necessity, are jacks of all trades. Keeping up with changes in virtually every specialty and translating that new knowledge into busy primary care practice is a gargantuan task. This likely helps explain why, on average...

Sep 19th, 2016 - ORLANDO, FL — After more than 200 years, medicine is still figuring out how to use digoxin in patients with heart failure. A new retrospective analysis adds to the debate over whether the drug, also used in atrial fibrillation, offers clinical ben...

Sep 19th, 2016 - ORLANDO, FL — After more than 200 years, medicine is still figuring out how to use digoxin in patients with heart failure. A new retrospective analysis adds to the debate over whether the drug, also used in atrial fibrillation, offers clinical ben...

Feb 11th, 2013 - To submit a legal/professional nursing question for future consideration, write to the editor at syox@medscape.net (include "Ask the Expert" in subject line). Question What is the liability of an RN case manager who questions a physician on an ord...

Feb 11th, 2013 - To submit a legal/professional nursing question for future consideration, write to the editor at syox@medscape.net (include "Ask the Expert" in subject line). Question What is the liability of an RN case manager who questions a physician on an ord...