Offshore OGUK-Oil & Gas Medicals OGUK (formerly UKOOA) Medicals Offshore Medicals atGETWELL MEDICAL CENTER As our environment changes when we go offshore-remoteness,isolation, lack of sophisticated medical facilitiesso Offshore medicals are carried out to ensure an individual is fit to work in an offshore oil and gas exploration Medical assessments can be carried out at our…
Fetal Echocardiography The incidence of congenital heart disease in the general population is about 10/1000 live births and this incidence is much higher in case of children born out of consanguineous marriages, diabetic mothers, higher parental age etc. Over the past decade , Specialized echocardiographic techniques have evolved as a major…
Resistant hypertension is defined as failure to achieve a blood pressure of 150/90 mm Hg despite the use of a rational triple-drug regimen in optimal doses . However, any definition of resistant hypertension is arbitrary; data from the Framingham Heart Study showed that risk for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality is a function of the degree of…
HYPERTENSION AND BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT. This is actually as simple as measuring temperature. Even a layman can accurately start measuring the BP with little practice. One can measre The BP instrument has a Cuff, The manometer and a Pump. The cuff is about 2/3rd of the upper arm diameter. For the obese people special cuffs…
HYPERTENSION. (HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE) AN OVERVIEW One commonly comes across about diseases like STROKE. HEART ATTACK, KIDNEY FAILURE, RETINAL DETACHMENT causing blindness. One of the major cause of all these presentations is HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE. Also called as ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION, the general public is still unaware about the ABCD of this problem , which is…
Royal Caribbean International- Health is an important aspect of the sailors on board the ship. Also All guests must ensure that they are medically and physically fit for travel. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) provide guidelines as to which vaccinations are required in each country. In many cases inoculations…