Congestive Heart Failure: What You Need to Know. 1  Many disorders can cause congestive heart failure, such as high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, infections, heart valve issues, cardiomyopathy, arrhythmias, anemia and diabetes. 2  Complications include swelling of the legs (edema), kidney problems and fluid in the lungs.
Glasgow Coma Scale. The Glasgow coma scale is used to assess patients in a coma. The initial score correlates with the severity of brain injury and prognosis. The Glasgow Coma Scale provides a score in the range 3-15; patients with scores of 3-8 are usually said to be in a coma. Score for eye opening + score for [â¦]
The symptom index (SI) for the chief complaint of heartburn or chest pain in 100 consecutive patients referred for ambulatory 24-h esophageal pH monitoring. Note the predominance of SI values in the two extremes (77%). There was a good association between high SI and an abnormal 24-h pH test (97.5%), as well as low SI and normal 24-h pH test (81.1%). (From [19].) index should be set lower than 75%. A few patients with normal 24 pH have positive symptom index, which in itself gives valuable information.