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FDA Reports Fewer Number of New Drug Shortages
As we have noted over the past several months, drug shortages have been causing severe problems for patients in America. Drug shortages almost tripled to 178 in 2010 from 61 in 2005, according to an FDA report released in October. Sterile injectables account for 80 percent of the shortages the FDA studied, 28 percent of which were cancer drugs. Before Obama’s executive order, FDA received an average of 10 monthly notifications of potential drug shortages from January 2011 to October 2011, according to the FDA. The number jumped to 60 from November to April. Manufacturing was the main reason in 43 percent...
Source: Policy and Medicine - May 10, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs

Once again: "Plausibility" does not mean "knowing the mechanism"
I tend to get lost in complexity from time to time. I know, big surprise to my regular readers, but I suppose it's a good thing that at least I know that this is a weakness of mine. Indeed, it must be part and parcel of my seeming tendency to produce epic posts of ridiculous length that sometimes surpass 5,000 words, although, in all fairness, my average post length is probably less than 2,000 words, which is still too long for many people but not beyond the pale. Of course, part of the reason for this is that I like to leave no stone unturned. In particular, I tend to like to make my refutations of the various bits of ps...
Source: Respectful Insolence - May 9, 2012 Category: Surgeons Tags: Medicine Source Type: blogs

ASA: Need anesthesiology providers? Consider anesthesiologist assistants
A guest column by the American Society of Anesthesiologists, exclusive to KevinMD.com.On March 28, 2012, Governor Scott Walker signed into law SB383, a bill to license Anesthesiologist Assistants (AA) in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Academy of Anesthesiologist Assistants (WAAA), the Wisconsin Society of Anesthesiologists (WSA), the Wisconsin Medical Society, numerous other medical specialty societies, the Medical Examining Board, and six major hospital systems supported the bill. Since 2001, seven states have opted to license AAs in order to meet the growing demand for anesthesia services.Read the rest of ASA: Need anesthe...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 6, 2012 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Kevin Tags: Potpourri Specialist Surgery newtag Source Type: blogs

The Book of Nurses: Epilogue.
————————————————– A while back I decided to see if I could encourage some readers to answer a few questions about their experiences as nurses in the lead up to International Nurses Week (from May 6th-12th). The response was fantastic. There were a total of 40 nurses (and 1 dog) that made a contribution, and I would like to give them a super-large thank you for taking the time to sit down and share their personal stories with us… and for making this little project such a success. I have absolutely loved reading them. ...
Source: impactEDnurse - May 4, 2012 Category: Nurses Authors: impactEDnurse Tags: not just a nurse. Source Type: blogs

Foot Wart Treatment – 6 Foot Wart Removal Procedures
Foot warts can be treated by various foot wart removal procedures such as: - Cryosurgery - Laser therapy - Electrosurgery - Salicylic acid - Duct tape - Home treatment for warts Cryosurgery – This is a foot wart treatment that kills warts by means of very low temperatures. Your growth is touched by an instrument and this freezes and kills it. Electrosurgery – This type of foot wart removal method uses electricity to burn your growth. It is touched by a needle heated by an electric current and this kills the wart's cells. Laser therapy is a type of foot wart treatment that uses a high-energy beam of light in order to bu...
Source: My Page - May 4, 2012 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Source Type: blogs

FDA Commish: There Are Fewer New Drug Shortages
Last October, the White House issued an executive order to the FDA to broaden reporting of potential shortages of certain drugs; speed reviews of applications to begin or alter production of these drugs; and provide more info to the US Department of Justice about possible collusion or price gouging (here is the fact sheet). The move came shortly Congress held hearings, conducted probes and proposed legislation to address the issue. At the time, various drug shortage were believed to be responsible for at least 15 patient deaths and secondary distributors were selling drugs for chemotherapy, anesthesia and infections at in...
Source: Pharmalot - May 4, 2012 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Barack Obama Boehringer Ingelheim Drug Shortages FDA Hospira Margaret Hamburg Novartis Prescription Drug Shortages Sandoz Shire Pharmaceuticals Teva Pharmaceuticals White House Source Type: blogs

Our Cancer Journey Week 20
Kathy's MRI showed no evidence of tumor and her surgeon worked with her to develop a go forward plan - lumpectomy on May 11 instead of mastectomy.This has been a busy week moving Kathy, 2 cats, 2 rabbits, and 6 chickens to our farm in Sherborn, Massachusetts. I've spent my nights unpacking boxes instead of posting blogs. I'll return to a normal writing schedule next week.Here's the MRI results from Kathy's imaging last week:HISTORY: 49-year-old female with locally advanced left sided breast cancer who is undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Please assess response to treatment.COMPARISON: No prior bre...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - May 3, 2012 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs

Can Guidelines Harm Patients?
Recently I saw an intriguing “personal view” in the BMJ written by Grant Hutchison entitled: “Can Guidelines Harm Patients Too?” Hutchison is a consultant anesthetist with -as he calls it- chronic guideline fatigue syndrome. Hutchison underwent an acute exacerbation of his “condition” with the arrival of another set of guidelines in his email inbox. Hutchison: On reviewing the level [...]
Source: Laika's MedLibLog - May 2, 2012 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: laikaspoetnik Tags: Evidence Based Medicine Guidelines Researchblogs BMJ Conditions and Diseases EBM Evidence Based Guidelines Health Levels of Evidence Protocols Source Type: blogs

Sensiotec Showcases Virtual Medical Assistant, a New Wireless Non-Contact Monitoring System
Sensiotec Inc. (Atlanta, GA) is presenting a new non-contact vital signs monitoring system at the 2012 conference of the American Telemedicine Association in San Jose. The Virtual Medical Assistant uses the ultra wideband, a former military high frequency band, to detect movements from the heart, lungs and torso. Using a specific algorithm, the detected absorption rates can be transformed into vital signs data. The server can transmit patient data to any number of nursing stations, personal computers, cell phones, tablets and pagers simultaneously.A nice feature for developers is the server architecture that provides an ...
Source: Medgadget - May 2, 2012 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Jan Sinnige Tags: Anesthesiology Critical Care Net News Telemedicine Source Type: blogs

Medscape Physician Compensation Report Physicians Skeptical of ACO Model
Medscape, WebMD’s flagship site for medical professionals, issued a report in the end of April highlighting the opinions of 24,000 U.S. physicians regarding their compensation, and opinions on healthcare reform, including Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and treatment guidelines. The survey was conducted from Feb. 1-17, 2012 via an online survey from a third-party collection site. The respondents represented 25 different physician practice areas. Below is a summary of findings. Medscape Physician Compensation Report ACO’s: Currently, only about 3% of physicians participate with ACOs, which are a type of ...
Source: Policy and Medicine - May 1, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs

Airway Registry & Checklists in Audio
Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog Airway Registry & Checklists in Audioaka Own the Airway in Audio 003OK Airway freaks, the next installment of Minh Le Cong‘s ‘Own the Airway Audio’ podcast is here!This month RFDS’s airway kung fu master talks to Dr Toby Fogg from Royal North Shore Hospital about his work on an Australasian ED Registry: www.airwayregistry.org.au. Cliff Reid had a great Resus.ME post on Toby’s work recently, triggered by Toby’s response to the recent LITFL blogpost featuring George Douros and the Austin’s RSI Checklist and Action Plan.This interview discusses:...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 30, 2012 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Anaesthetics Australia Emergency Medicine Featured Intensive Care Podcast Pre-hospital / Retrieval australasian airway registry checklist emergency inubation minh le cong Own the Airway Audio rapid sequence intubation RSI toby Source Type: blogs

GE’s New Vivid E9 Breakthrough 2012 Ultrasound with 4D TEE Probe
GE Healthcare just received FDA clearance for and is bringing to market its new Vivid E9 Breakthrough 2012 (BT12) cardiovascular ultrasound system.The new system includes a 4D transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) transducer, allowing for its use during invasive surgical procedures, as well as minimally invasive procedures in the cath lab.Read More
Source: Medgadget - April 30, 2012 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Gene Ostrovsky Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Critical Care Radiology Source Type: blogs

The 2011 Best Paid US CEO's Company's Latest Legal Settlement
Yet another legal settlement illustrates the contrast between rewards given to the hired managers of large health organizations and their organizations' performance. The New SettlementThe legal settlement in question was simple, as reported by Reuters,McKesson Corp, one of top U.S. drug wholesalers, has agreed to pay more than $190 million to settle claims that it had violated the federal False Claims Act by reporting inflated pricing information for many prescription drugs, causing Medicaid to overpay for them.The settlement was announced Thursday by U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman in New Jersey.According to the governme...
Source: Health Care Renewal - April 30, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: executive compensation perverse incentives legal settlements McKesson Source Type: blogs

The Morning Flap: April 30, 2012
These are my links for April 26th through April 30th: Occupy Wall Street plans mass May Day demonstration to shut down NYC – The NYPD is bracing for an attempt by Occupy Wall Street protesters to shut down traffic at arteries across the city during a mass demonstration Tuesday. Using websites and pamphlets, OWS organizers are urging people to help block traffic at bridge and tunnel ports to slow people going to work on May Day. Protesters — who also plan action in front of several financial buildings — are using the date to strengthen their numbers since the labor movement traditionally holds rallie...
Source: FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog - April 30, 2012 Category: Dentists Authors: Flap Tags: Pinboard Links The Morning Flap Amazon Amazon_Tax Brownley CA-26 Democrats Dentistry Economy Housing Kimmel Obama Occupy Strickland Source Type: blogs

How to Remove Skin Moles by Electrosurgery
Electrosurgery or electrocautery is a surgical procedure that can be used to remove skin moles. The process involves the application of an instrument heated by an electric current on the area in consideration. It may also involve the physician cutting the skin mole off. It is important to have a general check-up before this skin moles treatment and you should inform you physician about any medical condition you might have prior to this treatment. Inform you physician also if you are allergic to any numbing agent used. This procedure may involve the use of a local anesthetic. Therefore after the anesthetic is applied, and ...
Source: My Page - April 30, 2012 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Source Type: blogs

Senator Dick Durbin Urges FDA to Ban Flavored Cigars to Close Loophole in Tobacco Act; Wins 2012 Hypocrisy Award in the Process
Last week, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) urged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to close a loophole in the Tobacco Act, enacted in 2009, by banning flavored cigars. The Tobacco Act banned flavored cigarettes, but not flavored cigars. To close this loophole, which Senator Durbin said is being exploited by tobacco companies to attract youth to tobacco use, Senator Durbin is calling on the FDA to extend the flavoring ban to cigars.According to a statement on Senator Durbin's web site, entitled "Durbin, Lautenberg Announce Committee Approval of Provision to Encourage FDA Ban on Flavored Cigars":"“In 2009, President Obama ...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - April 30, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs

Health care needs the Lollipop man
I recently watched Dr. Atul Gawande on video describe how what American healthcare needs is pit crews and not cowboys. This sentiment is also memorialized in his thought-provoking writings for the New Yorker.Interestingly, Dr. Gawande is not the first person I have heard to suggest such a thing. A colleague named Dr. Ken Catchpole actually studied Formula 1 pit crews and used the information to guide improvements in pediatric anesthesia handoffs. His observations were astounding and really highlighted how the culture of medicine is different from Formula 1. In Formula 1, pit crews have a ‘fanatical’ approach to t...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 29, 2012 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Kevin Tags: Policy Health reform newtag Source Type: blogs

Healthcare Update 04-30-2012
Back from a rough week. Satellite Editions of this week’s update at ER Stories and at Medbloggers.org. As always, if you’re interested in posting here or at Medbloggers, drop me an e-mail. Not a laughing matter. Not even a smiling matter … especially for the patient. Man goes to see dentist for a toothache. Dentist just happens to be the girlfriend that he broke up with three days earlier for another woman. While patient was under anesthesia, the dentist pulls the affected tooth … and all his other teeth as well. Now patient’s new girlfriend dumped him and dentist faces three years in prison. Former med m...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - April 29, 2012 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Healthcare Update Source Type: blogs

Does Hypnosis Work For Weight Loss?
Hypnosis conjures up images of a bearded man with piercing black eyes and a mesmerizing deep voice swinging a pendulum back and forth, chanting, "You are getting very sleeeeepy." Hypnosis is terribly misunderstood and the only exposure to hypnosis most people will ever have is a Las Vegas stage show. But stage hypnosis for entertainment and hypnotherapy for behavior change are completely different animals. Could "real" hypnotherapy help you get leaner? I've wondered the same thing myself for decades, since I first started bodybuilding. In the late 1980's, Dr. Judd Bi...
Source: My Page - April 28, 2012 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Source Type: blogs

Why Are These Fraudulent Papers Unretracted? » Counterpunch
Weekend Edition April 27-29, 2012 Big Pharma's Ghostwriters Why Are These Fraudulent Papers Unretracted? by MARTHA ROSENBERG According to Science Times[1], the Tuesday science section in the New York Times, scientific retractions are on the rise because of a “dysfunctional scientific climate” that has created a “winner-take-all game with perverse incentives that lead scientists to cut corners and, in some cases, commit acts of misconduct.” But elsewhere, audacious, falsified research stands unretracted–including the work of authors who actually went to prison for fraud! Richard Borison, MD, ...
Source: PharmaGossip - April 28, 2012 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

My Abortion Was A Procedure, My Miscarriage A Loss
As long as I can remember I have been staunchly pro-choice. And so when a broken condom led to an unwanted pregnancy, having an abortion was a no brainer for me. I was young and single, a student who practiced safe sex and believed in a woman’s right to choose. When my period was late and my pregnancy test turned up positive, I immediately called my doctor and scheduled a D&C. My mother drove me to the health clinic. When we arrived, anti-choice protesters hurled abuse at us before a nurse led us through the doors. A sonogram confirmed I was about five weeks pregnant. I looked at the image and saw a circle about th...
Source: Genetics and Health - April 27, 2012 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Mommyish Tags: FEEL abortion birth control miscarriage Mommyish pregnancy & health Source Type: blogs

Team resource management: cutting the swiss cheese.
An important article in this months Emergency Medicine Journal (abstract only, subscription required) looks at the new, and increasingly popular exploration of leadership and followship skills in emergency department roles. Although concerned mainly with emergency department physicians, these skills transpose well to nurses working in any clinical team environment. You can also listen to a podcast on the topic here. Training in these non-technical competencies (also known as Crew Resource Management (CRM) or NOTECHS) develops interpersonal and cognitive skills, attitudes, behaviours and situational awareness that give st...
Source: impactEDnurse - April 26, 2012 Category: Nurses Authors: impactEDnurse Tags: tips and tricks Source Type: blogs

Summit hears calls for new pain strategy - Vancouver Sun
Tens of thousands of Canadians are living with unrelenting pain that can be isolating, demoralizing and deadly, a national summit on pain heard Tuesday. Access to pain relief is a fundamental human right, yet waiting times for pain care in Canada grow longer by the day, pain doctors and leaders of patient groups say. Many patients who need opioids to help control pain can't find a family doctor willing to treat them, the one-day gathering in Ottawa heard. Even children are suffering under-treated and poorly managed pain. Chronic pain "assaults us physically, emotionally and spiritually," said Lynn Cooper, ...
Source: Psychology of Pain - April 26, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

Smiths Medical’s ViaValve Safety I.V. Catheter Coming This Summer to U.S.
Smiths Medical just got approval from the FDA to introduce its ViaValve Safety I.V. Catheter in the US, a device that promises to help prevent blood exposure and needlestick injuries.Workings of the device according to Smiths:Read More
Source: Medgadget - April 26, 2012 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Gene Ostrovsky Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine Military Medicine Pediatrics Surgery Source Type: blogs

Which Doctors Get Paid How Much?
Medscape has released the results of a survey of physicians on pay, and found that though income in general declined, some of the top-earning specialties remained the same as in the 2011 survey. In 2012, radiologists and orthopedic surgeons topped the list at $315,000, followed by cardiologists ($314,000), anesthesiologists ($309,000), and urologists ($309,000). Previously, radiologists and orthopedic surgeons led the pack, at a mean income of $350,000 each, followed by anesthesiologists and cardiologists (both at $325,000). The bottom-earning specialties in this year’s survey were pediatrics, family medicine, and i...
Source: Pharmalot - April 26, 2012 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Iowa Kansas Medscape Missouri Nebraska Northeast pay Physicians Reimbursement specialties Source Type: blogs

Physicians and pay: some better, some worse
Medscape has released the results of a survey of physicians on pay, and found that though income in general declined, some of the top-earning specialties remained the same as in the 2011 survey. In 2012, radiologists and orthopedic surgeons topped the list at $315,000, followed by cardiologists ($314,000), anesthesiologists ($309,000), and urologists ($309,000). Previously, radiologists and orthopedic surgeons led the pack, at a mean income of $350,000 each, followed by anesthesiologists and cardiologists (both at $325,000). The bottom-earning specialties in this year’s survey were pediatrics, family medicine, and i...
Source: Pharmalot - April 26, 2012 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Iowa Kansas Medscape Missouri Nebraska Northeast pay Physicians Reimbursement specialties Source Type: blogs

Operation Tooth Fairy: progress report
Progress indeed, my friends. This morning I went to see the consultant about my tooth, on as day so wet and gloomy that the tops of the wind turbines were lost in low cloud. I was feeling pretty miserable myself, at the thought of Yet Another Attempt To Explain Why The Tooth Thing Is So Complicated. I had all my ammunition ready: 3 years of toothache, more than a month taking the maximum possible dose of paracetamol and ibuprofen, which can’t be good for a girl, past attempts at removal, inability to tolerate sedation. I was prepared for relentless, polite resistance, and quiet, intelligent, well-argued refusal of an...
Source: Bah! to cancer - April 26, 2012 Category: Cancer Authors: Stephanie Tags: Recovery From Breast Cancer breast cancer recovery side effects teeth Source Type: blogs

R&R in the FASTLANE 017
Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog R&R in the FASTLANE 017The 17th edition of our series of eminence-based evidence:A free resource that harnesses the power of social media to allow some of the best and brightest emergency medicine and critical care clinicians from all over the world tell us what they think is worth reading from the published literature.This edition contains 8 recommended reads. Find out more about the R&R in the FASTLANE project here and check out the team of contributors from all around the world.This week’s ‘R&R Hall of FamersReiter DA, Lakoff DJ, Trueger NS, Shah KH. Individual Interac...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 26, 2012 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Emergency Medicine Evidence Based Medicine Featured Intensive Care R&R in the FASTLANE critical care literature recommendations research and reviews Source Type: blogs

update, texas-sized edition
You know, it was one of those things after I got back from vacation where three days back into it, I felt like I'd never been on vacation at all. Anyway, things have been busy at work (and is it really necessary at this point to say yes, I work BOTH IN AND OUT OF THE HOME--but when I talk about being "busy at work," mainly I mean busy at that place that I go to outside of my house for my job where I take care of people to whom I'm not related and for which I earn a salary; and I think most people, including my children, understand that distinction). But let's jump right back into it, shall we?I flew into San Antionio...
Source: the underwear drawer - April 26, 2012 Category: Anesthetists Authors: Michelle Au Source Type: blogs

The Book of Nurses: Olivia.
I would really REALLY like you to contribute to the Book of Nurses in celebration of International Nurses Week this year (May 6-12). Your story matters. Here’s How. ————————————————– My name’s Olivia, and I noticed that you haven’t had a post for the Book of Nurses from a perioperative nurse, thought I might offer you my story. Sorry if it’s a bit long, but how I got to becoming a nurse isn’t a simple story. OK then, to start off tell us what country/area you live in, how long you have been nursi...
Source: impactEDnurse - April 25, 2012 Category: Nurses Authors: impactEDnurse Tags: not just a nurse. Source Type: blogs

Befriend the bougie!
Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog Befriend the bougie!Much to our disgust EMCrit beat us to this one, hands down. But, given that the bougie is my favourite piece kit and best buddy in the resus room, I’ve gone ahead and reposted these videos on LITFL.They MUST be watched by all who perform (or assist with) emergency intubations.The first video by John McGill, from HQMEDED, has already featured on Own the Airway!:But the new video takes bougie trouble shooting to a whole new dimension of sophistication:There are some great comments on the EMCrit blogpost, and I’ve reproduced a couple here that echo my own thou...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 25, 2012 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Anaesthetics eLearning Emergency Medicine Intensive Care Pre-hospital / Retrieval Resuscitation Video airway bill hinckley bougie emcrit emergency intubation hqmeded john mcgill scott weingart seth trueger Source Type: blogs

History of Psychology Round-Up: From Alan Turing to Carl Jung
Every month I share five fascinating articles or podcasts I’ve recently come across while researching the history of psychology. This month you’ll find everything from information about Alan Turing to Phineas Gage to Carl Jung to the infamous Robbers Cave Experiment. Alan Turing This year marks a century since Alan Turing’s birth. A mathematician and code-breaker, Turing also was the founder of computer science and artificial intelligence. Nature has a variety of articles and a podcast on everything from Turing’s famous 1936 paper to his other interests. Also, here’s another podcast that explores Turing’s trag...
Source: World of Psychology - April 25, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: General History of Psychology Research Roundup 11 Year Old Boys Alan Turing Article Writer Artificial Intelligence Brain Injuries Carl Jung Carolyn Sherif Code Breaker Gene Perry Human Brain Infamous Case Neuropathology Phi Source Type: blogs

Alzheimer's Disrupts Brain Networks
Precise measurement of changes in brain networks are critical to understanding Alzheimer's and will likely be important in models of other neurodegenerative disorders. Alzheimer's Reading Room I found this research interesting because the focus is on the brain as a network. One of the problems in dementia is the disruption of the functional connectivity of brain regions. Earlier today I wrote, Alzheimer's and Learning How to Trust, and basically what I was saying is that Dotty compensates for these disconnects by stringing together diverse information in her brain and weaving some rather "tall tales". In my story abou...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - April 21, 2012 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs

How to be a better flosser — Episode 2: Anesthesiologist goes rogue and disputes dental expert
Source: bookofjoe - April 19, 2012 Category: Anesthetists Authors: bookofjoe Source Type: blogs

Teaching Children the Skill of Grieving
Children, like all of us, continually experience loss. As much as they may celebrate their increased capacity to ‘do stuff’ like riding a bicycle or attending school, they also feel the loss of the special attention and privileges they had when they were younger and more dependent. They feel loss when their family moves, when people in the family leave home, when pets die, when the boy or girl they like doesn’t like them, or when their best friend finds a new No. 1. They feel loss when holiday traditions change or vacations are suspended due to financial strain on the family. They feel loss when Grandpa can’t pick...
Source: World of Psychology - April 18, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Danielle B. Grossman, MFT Tags: Children and Teens Family General Grief and Loss Mental Health and Wellness Parenting Psychology Self-Help Stress Alcohol Drugs Anger Best Friend Bicycle Critical Skill Dependence Effects Of Alcohol Experience Loss Face Source Type: blogs

Cocaine antidote
A press release just in from the American Chemical Society describes how wcientists are reporting development and successful testing in laboratory mice of a “cocaine antidote”. The substance and its effects are described in the journal Molecular Pharmaceutics. The researchers refer to it as a “passive vaccine”, which apparently reverses the motor impairment, seizures and other dangerous symptoms of cocaine overdose. Cocaine (benzoylmethylecgonine) is a tropane alkaloid obtained from the leaves of the coca plant as a colourless crystalline substance. The name derives from “coca” to which ...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - April 18, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs

Elderly ICU care and quality of life
#qualitysummit The Health Care Quality Summit in Saskatoon has full round of expert speakers, break-out sessions with "Saskatchewan Stories," but also a poster session showing some recent research in the field. An anaesthesia and critical care fourth year resident named Adam van der Merwe (seen here) was interested in questions surrounding the efficacy of care in intensive care units. But instead of focusing on the medical care, per se, he looked into the issue of the extent to which ICU care affected the patients' quality of life after their hospitalization.In this chart, he compares various quality of life in...
Source: Running a hospital - April 17, 2012 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs

One Down. Many More to Go…
A few weeks ago, you may remember me talking about a young African-American fellow who brought some software in to be installed. He gave up when he realized he needed administrator privileges to the computer. I kind of caught on to what he was doing, but didn’t press the issue. I figured he would just ask. He never did. “What is it?” I asked him of the software today as he sat in front of me and played solitaire. “It’s the technical manual for my truck on DVD,” he replied. “I want to rebuild the engine.” “Bring it in tomorrow,” I told him. “We will set you up a second account with the DVD manual on y...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - April 17, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Chin Implants Surge, Plastic Surgeons’ Group Says
iStockphoto Botox and breast augmentation remain the top cosmetic procedures in the U.S., but chin implants are the fastest-growing trend according to new data from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. The group, comprised of 7,000 physicians, says the number of chin implants grew 71% last year to 20,680. The procedures were about evenly divided between men and women, with the largest increase in patients 40 and older. The groups president, Malcolm Z. Roth, suggests one reason may be the fact that more people see themselves on video-chat technology. They may notice that their jaw line is not as sharp as they wan...
Source: WSJ.com: Health Blog - April 16, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Laura Landro Tags: Drugs Cosmetic medicine Source Type: blogs

Own the Oxygen!
Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog Own the Oxygen!By now everyone should have read this paper:Weingart SD, Levitan RM. Preoxygenation and Prevention of Desaturation During Emergency Airway Management. Ann Emerg Med. 2012 Mar;59(3):165-75.e1. Epub 2011 Nov 3. Review. PubMed PMID: 22050948.It is the only paper to have been included in two separate editions of R&R in the FASTLANE (because it is SO DAMN IMPORTANT) and it was the inaugural R&R Hall of Famer. If you haven’t read it, you really have no excuse because the article is available for free on the Annals EM Site (pdf).I gave a talk on this paper soon afte...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 16, 2012 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Anaesthetics Education Emergency Medicine Featured Intensive Care apneic oxygenation emcrit ercast levitan orman preoxygenation rapid sequence intubation RSI slideshow weingart Source Type: blogs

Chronic pain patients overlooked in debate about OxyContin abuse - Editorial - The Globe and Mail
Chronic pain isn't as compelling as heart disease and cancer. To be a pain patient, in some cases, is to be viewed as an aspiring junkie. Pain has not been recognized with sufficient seriousness.That is due, in part, to abuse of OxyContin, a powerful painkiller that disappeared from Canada on March 1 and was replaced with a chemically identical but tampering-resistant version called OxyNEO.Drug users crushed and snorted OxyContin, dubbing it "hillbilly heroin." Annual prescriptions for oxycodone (the generic name for OxyContin/OxyNEO) increased nearly 80-fold since the drug was introduced in 2000, suggesting too many were ...
Source: Psychology of Pain - April 16, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

Anesthetia Pre-Study?
by DOdoc (Posted Sun Apr 15, 2012 4:50 pm)Hi,Any field of study that exists within medicine will be helpful to your studies but I'd think it would little effect on getting into residency--those programs, regardless of the field, will carry less weight than your performance in medical school. It would, however, help in your interview for residency as you'd have good talking points from a broader field but any effect would likely be marginal at best.Hope that helps.Good luck in your pursuits!Dr. F.
Source: Med Student Guide - April 15, 2012 Category: Medical Students Source Type: blogs

Spacelabs Introduces qube Patient Monitor and Arkon Anesthesia Delivery System
Spacelabs Healthcare, a subsidiary of OSI Systems, is introducing the qube patient monitor and the Arkon high-performance anesthesia delivery system. Both devices recently received FDA clearance.The qube is a portable monitor that is very similar to the company’s XPREZZON patient monitor. Essentially it is a small and lightweight version of the XPREZZON, with long battery life and is purposed for emergency, general and post-anesthesia care units. It is mountable in many configurations and can be quickly detached for transport.Read More
Source: Medgadget - April 12, 2012 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Wouter Stomp Tags: Anesthesiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine Military Medicine Source Type: blogs

I must breathe for this patient
Mostly it is just terrifying.I sat on the edge of the bed in my fleece pajamas and tried to describe the fear.“I’m sure you’ll do great,” my husband tried to reassure me.“But you don’t understand. Every time you induce general anesthesia, you’re basically almost killing someone. It’s … petrifying.”Read the rest of I must breathe for this patient on KevinMD.com.Category: Physician | Tags: Specialist, Surgery | No comment
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 12, 2012 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Kevin Tags: Physician Specialist Surgery newtag Source Type: blogs

FDA: Committee Recommends Exploring Anti-NGF Biologics for Chronic Pain Management
In 2011, an Institute of Medicine report found that chronic pain affects 116 million Americans and costs the U.S. as much as $635 billion each year. Moreover, common conditions like low back pain and osteoarthritis, or damage to the joints caused by wear and tear affect about 27 million adults in the United States and are a common cause of chronic disability. While there are numerous pain products on the market, such as opioids, these drugs have significant risks and costs associated with them. Hundreds of thousands of people each year suffer from complications associated with painkillers, including death, overdos...
Source: Policy and Medicine - April 12, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs

Booting up human consciousness
UPDATE: I would love to hear your personal brain “reboot” following anaesthesia story. Mine? I had endoscopy once, wasn’t completely under with the valium, in and out of consciousness, when it was done I remember looking at the clock on the wall and “seeing” it going backwards. I also recall leaving a dental surgery as a child and thinking the lady walking me to the train home was the nurse when in fact it was my mother! When you come round from an anaesthetic there’s often an initial sense of delirious struggle before you climb fully to awareness and orientation. It’s almost like ...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - April 11, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs