Eating a wholesome breakfast will not only kick start your metabolism, it will also make you crave less throughout the day, meaning you stay away from the vending machine for longer. Another way to prevent cravings and stick to a healthy diet is to eat an assortment of smaller meals throughout the day. On top [...]
Gastric Aspiration and Lavage Although unabsorbed drug in the stomach may be removed by gastric aspiration and lavage its usefulness in practice has been seriously questioned (Proudfoot 1984). Most drugs and poisons seem to be absorbed rapidly and this technique is unlikely to be productive more than 4 hours after ingestion, unless gastric emptying has [...]
The idea that drug concentrations could be measured and used to guide therapeutic decisions was first applied to quinidine when it was used to convert the cardiac rhythm of patients with atrial fibrillation to sinus rhythm (Sokolow & Ball 1956). Although quinidine is rarely used for this purpose today, because of the advent of DC [...]








