Term
Panic attacks consists of
four or more of the following symptoms: |
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Definition
- Palpitations, pounding heart, or accelerated heart rate
- Sweating
- trembling/shaking
- sensations of shortness of breath
- Choking sensation in throat
- Chest pain/discomfort |
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Term
| Postraumatic stress Disorder |
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Definition
| Development of characteristic symptoms following exposure to an extreme stressor involving direct personal experience of an event that involves actual or threatened death or serious injury, or other threat to one's physical integrity or witnessing an event that involves death, injury or a threat to the physical integrity of another, learning about an unexpected death, serious harm, or threat of death or injury experienced be a family member or other close associate. |
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Definition
| Benzodiazepine are agonists of the GABA-Benzodizepine-chloride receptor complex, facilitating the binding of GABA |
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(midazolam)
parenteral administration
intervenious |
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(zaleplon)
non-Benzodiazepine
very short half life - an hour |
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