Health and Safety

Let's talk about high blood pressure. Diuretics, beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers, ACE inhibitors, angiotensin II receptor antagonists, alpha-blockers, drugs that act on the central nervous system: it is up to the doctor to choose…

Salmonellosis is one of a group of infectious diseases caused by bacteria belonging to the salmonella family (excluding Salmonella Typhi, which causes typhoid fever)

Knowing how to recognize the symptoms of thrombosis in a timely manner is crucial in the fight against the disease; with early diagnosis, in fact, thrombosis can be treated effectively, preventing the onset of more serious complications

Schizophrenia is a psychosis characterised by delirium that distorts the patient's contact with the surrounding reality

Cardiac massage on children is performed by pressing on the lower half of the sternum and compressing the chest by about 1/3, for about 5 centimetres, at a rate between 100 and 120 compressions per minute

It is not uncommon for a rescuer to be confronted with the event of childbirth, and therefore careful preparation for the main complications of labour is important

Scabies is an infection caused by a microscopically small (0.3-0.4 mm) external parasitic skin mite, Sarcoptes scabiei

Prosopagnosia is the inability to recognise faces. In medicine, agnosia is a generic term for a disorder of sensory discrimination, whether visual, tactile, olfactory or acoustic

Breast cancer or breast carcinoma is a disease caused by the uncontrolled and abnormal multiplication of certain cells within the mammary gland

An implantable defibrillator is a cardiac pacemaker powered by a battery, which monitors the heart's electrical signals and delivers an electric shock when it detects an abnormal rhythm of a certain type