Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment, 2006 (Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment)

Q

Q fever

1392

1397–1398

Q wave infarction See Myocardial infarction; ST elevation (Q wave) infarction

Qigong (external)

1709

Qinghaosu/qinghaosu derivatives See Artemisinin

QRS complex

in preexcitation syndromes

374

wide

differentiation of aberrantly conducted supraventricular beats from ventricular beats and

372

in hyperkalemia

876

in poisoning/drug overdose

1609

1609

with antiarrhythmics

1634

with antidepressants

1609

1637

1637

with phenothiazines

1633

in ventricular premature beats

379

QT interval

long

381–382

in acute renal failure

901

with droperidol

540

in hypocalcemia

878

in hypomagnesemia

884

in poisoning/drug toxicity

381

1609

1609

antiarrhythmics in

1634

anticholinergic agents in

1620

antidepressants in

1070

1637

antipsychotics in

1062

1063

halofantrine in

1494

phenothiazines in

1633

quinolones in

1581

short, in hypercalcemia

879

Quad screen, in prenatal testing

765

Quadriplegia See also Paralysis

in porphyria

1703

spinal trauma causing

1021

Quality of life, evaluation of cancer treatment response and

1688

Quazepam

1045

long, in poisoning/drug toxicity, erythromycin in

1569

Queensland tick typhus

1392

1396

Questran See Cholestyramine

Quetiapine

1059

1060

1061

1063

Quinacrine, for lupus erythematosus

105

Quinapril

434

Quincke's pulses

335

Quinidine

adverse ocular effects of

178

antidepressant drug interactions and

1074

for arrhythmias

369

for malaria

1490

1494

1496

1497

resistance to

1492

monitoring concentrations of

1734

overdose/toxicity of

1634

P.1855

Quinine

1490

1494

1496

1497

resistance to

1492

4-Quinoline-carbinolamines, for malaria chemoprophylaxis/treatment

1488

Quinolones

1579–1581

1580

Quinsy tonsillectomy

206

Quinupristin/dalfopristin

1579

for Enterococcus faecium infection

1403

1579

QVAR See Beclomethasone