medicine

Fetal alcohol syndrome is a condition in a child that results from alcohol exposure during the mother's pregnancy

At birth, every child undergoes neonatal screening: this is one of the most important preventive actions carried out by the National Health System, which enables the early detection of rare genetic diseases

When treating a patient after smoke inhalation, be aware that the toxic products of combustion damage the airways and/or cause metabolic effects

Spinal immobilisation is one of the great skills that the emergency medical technician must master. For many years now, all victims who had suffered trauma have been immobilised and, because of the type of accident, according to the…

International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Rome, 16 October 1943. In the capital city, 'K's disease' made its appearance, a very unusual disease. So unusual that... it doesn't exist!

Pulmonary interstitial disease is a group of around 300 diseases, which differ in their clinical and radiological manifestations, as well as in their treatment approach

Pulmonary embolism diagnosis: according to a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual patient data published online on 14 December in Annals of Internal Medicine, diagnostic strategies for suspected pulmonary embolism (PE) with…

Echo Doppler is used to diagnose congenital heart disease, narrowing and aneurysms of blood vessels

ECMO is an extracorporeal circulation tool that can save the lives of children with severe heart or lung failure

Acebutolol is an antihypertensive beta-receptor blocker (also called 'beta-adrenergic blocker' or simply 'beta-blocker')