A man with HIV is swimming in a public pool. He scrapes his hand on the ladder and a little blood drips into the water. No one notices. What’s the real chance another swimmer catches HIV from this, and why?

A woman had symptoms of acidity and heartburn. Doctors gave her general anesthesia and started to look for the cause by doing an endoscopy. A long parasite was removed from her esophagus. Ascaris lumbricoides is a roundworm that can grow up to 35 cm long. People get it by swallowing tiny eggs from dirty soil or food. The eggs hatch in the intestine. Young worms then travel through the blood to the lungs. From the lungs the worms are coughed up into the throat. They are then swallowed again and go down into the stomach. They finally settle and grow into adults in the small intestine. Adult worms normally stay in the intestine. Sometimes they move upward into the stomach or esophagus. This can cause burning pain and the need for removal.

🌟 SYNCOPE - Types 🔸️Neutrally mediated syncope 🔸️Orthostatic hypotension 🔸️Cardiac syncope From : 2018 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of syncope

American Heart Association proposes to omit the following terminologies in it's latest scientific statement (May 2014) ❌️ 𝙃𝙮𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙪𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙮 ❌️ 𝙃𝙮𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙨 Use of subjective emotive language such as 𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙨 and 𝙪𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙮 fail to acknowledge the nuances of treatment decisions and may encourage unnecessary antihypertensive treatment. Therefore in a statement paper from AHA in May 2024, it is proposed the following objective terminology: ✅️ 𝙃𝙮𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙮 🔸️SBP/DBP >180/110–120 mm Hg with evidence of new or worsening target-organ damage ✅️ 𝘼𝙨𝙮𝙢𝙥𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙙𝙡𝙮 𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝘽𝙋 🔸️SBP/ DBP >180/110–120 mm Hg without evidence of new or worsening target-organ damage ✅️ 𝘼𝙨𝙮𝙢𝙥𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝘽𝙋 🔸️SBP/DBP ≥130/80 mm Hg without evidence of new or worsening target-organ damage. Source : The Management of Elevated Blood Pressure in the Acute Care Setting: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association