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A situation where someone experiences harmful effects from the application of a drug. Drug effect contrary to what is therapeutically intended. In pharmacology and therapeutics, an undesired side effect or toxicity caused by a treatment. Adverse reactions may occur as a result of drug therapies, physical therapy, radiation, or surgery. The onset of the unwanted…

A harmful event which occurs during treatment.  

Bursa which develops as a result of continued pressure or rubbing. A bursa not usually present but developing in response to friction or pressure.  

The management of a trauma patient during the critical first hour after injury. Treatment measures needed to manage a critically injured patient.  

A description of various lung infections which reduce the lungs’ efficiency. Condition characterized by increased capillary permeability in the lung circulation resulting in noncardiogenic pulmonary edema. Adult (or acute) respiratory distress syndrome is an inflammatory disease of the lung characterized by the sudden onset of pulmonary edema and respiratory failure. The disorder is also known…

Form of diabetes mellitus that develops slowly in older people as the body becomes less able to use insulin effectively.  

Condition in adults where the villi in the intestine become smaller and so reduce the surface which can absorb nutrients.  

A hormone secreted by the pituitary gland, which makes the cortex of the adrenal glands produce corticosteroids.  

A cell or neurone which is stimulated by adrenaline..  

A treatment for cancer in which the patient’s own white blood cells are used to attack cancer cells. The treatment of malignancies with T cells that are taken from patients with cancer, grown and activated in a culture where they are stimulated to react to specific tumor antigens, and then returned to patients by infusion.…