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TSR Med Students' Society Part III

Reply 5060

Helenia

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Original post by carcinoma

Even at the inferior :rolleyes:

Peninsula, we covered half/most of that in first year. :tongue:

You've really got quite a complex going on, haven't you?

Anyway, buzzcat, in addition to John Locke's excellent post (which I mostly understood but had forgotten the vast majority of the molecular level stuff!), the general consensus is that the principal action of digoxin in AF is to slow the ventricular rate by slowing conduction at the AV node, I think predominantly through its actions on the Na/K ATPase. It is not used to cardiovert a patient back into sinus rhythm - you want amiodarone, flecainide (in certain circumstances) or electricity for that.

Whether digoxin should be used before, after or alongside beta blockers for rate control in various groups of patients is controversial and something even most cardiologists can't agree on.

(edited 12 years ago)

Reply 5061

digitalis

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Original post by carcinoma

Even at the inferior :rolleyes:

Peninsula, we covered half/most of that in first year. :tongue:

By 'half' do you actually mean you covered the Na+/K+/ATPase pump?

Reply 5062

fairy spangles

1

Original post by fairy spangles

Im gonna burst your special bubble lol.....
I am special aswell!
This happened to me.

Oh dear does someone not like me being special - haha!!

Reply 5063

fairy spangles

1

Original post by buzzcat

What the!?? How are you so wisened at such an early age sir? That's an incredible amount of detail just for some introductory cardiac physiology lectures - I assume you're at a research centred university, and given your pseudonym, a British institution - Ox/Cam?? At Imperial they briefly mentioned NaKATPase then the term vanished faster than Latin itself...

Seriously? I thought all universities went into the details or cardiac regulation mechanisms etc.
John Locke i wonder if you go to the same medical school as me?

(edited 12 years ago)

Reply 5064

carcinoma

17

Original post by Helenia

You've really got quite a complex going on, haven't you?

No, Its definitely sarcasm.

Reply 5065

buzzcat

Original post by carcinoma

No, Its definitely sarcasm.

lol I heard Pennisula got shut down?? :curious:

Reply 5066

Helenia

20

Original post by carcinoma

No, Its definitely sarcasm.

Well, I know that you don't think Peninsula is inferior. I also know that most people on here (excluding applicants) don't either, but it seems that you think they do and have to rush in to defend it/its methods at any opportunity, even when no insult has been made. Just a passing observation - I know I've felt I have to do the same about Oxbridge in the past.

Reply 5067

Becca-Sarah

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I understood none of that cardiac stuff. Thank goodness for iBSc and delaying fourth year.

Reply 5068

xXxBaby-BooxXx

OP

19

I have all that to look forward to next year :afraid:

Reply 5069

Wangers

16

Original post by Kinkerz

Some lowly Keele students without the hours and hours of lectures can piece most of that together :wink:

You ruined my reflection :frown:

Having done a year of clinics, I do wonder show I sat through 2 years of lectures. Although I am begining to see method in the donkey work.

Reply 5070

Wangers

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Original post by Becca-Sarah

I understood none of that cardiac stuff. Thank goodness for iBSc and delaying fourth year.

Your love of orthopaedics? :wink:

You keeping well?

Reply 5071

vertigo.0012

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Original post by buzzcat

lol I heard Pennisula got shut down?? :curious:

....****, I hope not! You'd think they'd tell us... :tongue:

Reply 5072

carcinoma

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Original post by Helenia

Well, I know that you don't think Peninsula is inferior. I also know that most people on here (excluding applicants) don't either, but it seems that you think they do and have to rush in to defend it/its methods at any opportunity, even when no insult has been made. Just a passing observation - I know I've felt I have to do the same about Oxbridge in the past.

There is nothing wrong with widening awareness and education.

If it comes across defensive, then my bad. I was aiming for humorous conversation.

Reply 5073

Stanley90

13

Nothing wrong with being defensive especially if it's to try and repair common misconceptions about your med school.

Reply 5074

Dr. Hannibal Lecter

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Original post by Wangers

Half the problem in medicine is the latin. Dermatology for instance, stick anything latinate onto the end of erythema and you're onto a possibility.

This was said during a talk from an ex UCL student, at their open day many moons ago. Is it some sort of UCL anecdote haha?

Reply 5075

Kinkerz

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Original post by Stanley90

Nothing wrong with being defensive especially if it's to try and repair common misconceptions about your med school.

That's a futile mission.

Reply 5076

Dr. Hannibal Lecter

13

It's good to see some medical discussion in the Med soc for once haha,
but the obligatory "my med school does/doesn't..." chat of course reared it's ugly head straight after.

Reply 5077

carcinoma

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Original post by Dr. Hannibal Lecter

It's good to see some medical discussion in the Med soc for once haha,
but the obligatory "my med school does/doesn't..." chat of course reared it's ugly head straight after.