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NEJM on inflight medical emergencies
Via Doximity, a nice review of inflight medical emergencies: We conducted a study of in-flight medical emergencies involving large commercial airlines, characterizing on-board assistance provided by flight crews and other passengers and identifying the outcomes of these events, including ambulance transport to a hospital and hospital admission. On the basis of our findings, we suggest a practical approach to the initial management of common in-flight medical emergencies for medical personnel who may be called on to render aid. NEJM No related posts. (Source: GruntDoc)
Source: GruntDoc - June 14, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: GruntDoc Tags: Announcements Source Type: blogs

We need an Apple Genius Bar for patients
Have you ever been to a Genius Bar at an Apple store? The last time I was there — checking out a pesky problem on my iPhone — I couldn’t help but wonder: why can’t we have something like that to deal with our common health issues? Genius Bars are located in Apple Stores in easy-to-access shopping areas, like malls. The Genius Bars are designed to allow for a quick discussion of symptoms, education and on-the-spot problem resolution. They’re attractive, airy and fun, with new gadgets to try and people who can answer your questions. Continue reading ... Your patients are rating you online: H...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 14, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Tags: Patient Emergency Primary care Source Type: blogs

Access To The Morning After Pill Remains An Issue: Baruch Explains
Earlier this week, the Obama administration gave up its fight to block over-the-counter access to the newer, more popular version of the morning after pill called Plan B One-Step to girls or women (back story). The move largely ends a highly-charged, decade-long controversy over access to emergency contraception. But there are some unknowns thanks to the unique and confusing circumstances in this situation. A key issue is affordable access if there are significant price differences between treatments. Plan B One-Step contains just one pill, while the older two-pill version is available as a generic, but will still require ...
Source: Pharmalot - June 14, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: esilverman Source Type: blogs

Nuclear Death
A very sad tale from the Wall Street Journal:Equipment Collapses, Killing PatientBy TAMER EL-GHOBASHY and CHRISTOPHER WEAVERA patient at a veteran's hospital in the Bronx was killed Wednesday when a large piece of diagnostic equipment fell on him in what experts called a rare accident.The 66-year-old victim was undergoing a procedure using a gamma camera at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center when the apparatus apparently collapsed and crushed him, officials said.In a statement, a spokesman for the medical center said the camera was installed in 2006 and was maintained by its manufacturer. "This is a very tragic and unus...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - June 13, 2013 Category: Radiologists Source Type: blogs

TechTool Thursday 031
TechTool review of CT Scanning in Critical and Emergency Care by Frasford Pty Ltd on iPad Website: – iTunes - Website CT Scanning in Critical and Emergency Care aims to teach ED health professionals to better understand CT scans and pick up common abnormalities. It contains tutorials that work through CT interpretation cases Design and User Interface The app looks great and is so simple and pleasant to use. The screens are all clear and the actual scan graphics and accompanying audio are faultless. What more could you ask for? CT Scanning on iPad 1 expand(document.getElementById('ddet2029536780'));expa...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 13, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Tessa Davis Tags: Application Education eLearning Featured FOAM iOS Radiology Reviews crit-IQ CT iPad iPad app Tech Tool TechTool Source Type: blogs

Bedside Critical Care 2013
A quick heads up about this year’s not-for-profit Bedside Critical Care conference in Cairns. Last year’s conference was great — I got to invite people to come join the FOAM party using one of my favourite medical stories (together with plenty of slides of phallic vegetables, of course), as well give a heap of tox talks and workshops over 5 days. Sadly, I won’t be there this year, but there will be even better people there instead! This is what is happening in Cairns, north Queensland from September 23rd to 27th 2013 at Shangri La on the marina: high impact clinical update talks are mixed with hands o...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 12, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Conference Emergency Medicine Featured Intensive Care bedside critical care cairns Education roger harris Source Type: blogs

Unauthorized Immigrants Account For Only 1.4 Percent Of US Medical Spending
Unauthorized immigrants have lower health care expenditures compared to legal residents, naturalized citizens, and US natives, Jim Stimpson and colleagues from the University of Nebraska Medical Center report in a Health Affairs Web First study released today. Over the 2000-2009 period, US natives accounted for about $1 trillion in average annual health care spending; all immigrants spent about one-tenth of that amount, or $96.7 billion. Unauthorized immigrants accounted for $15.4 billion of that total, or 15.9 percent. Analyzing health expenditure data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey by nativity and legal statu...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 12, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Chris Fleming Tags: Coverage Disparities Insurance Policy Politics Prevention Spending Source Type: blogs

The spiritual bond between two souls
Being a part time hospitalist, I am frequently on overnight call in the hospital, spending the night admitting sick patients from the emergency room, or dealing with any calamities that happen on the medical floors. I would have to say the that the most dreaded events are: “Code blue” (this means a hospitalized patient in cardiac or respiratory arrest waiting to be resuscitated), followed closely by a nurse calling with: “Doc, you need to come look at my patient, he looks like she’s about to code,” and lastly, while not as dramatic, but equally dreaded, having just put your tired head on the pillow for some rest ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 12, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Tags: Physician Hospital Hospitalist Source Type: blogs

Emergency Response App Helps 911 Operators Better Assist in Finding and Helping Desperate Callers
Yesterday the National Science Foundation helped unveil a new smartphone app that may change the way people in an emergency communicate with operators responding to 911 calls. Developed by a team from University of North Texas headed by Ram Dantu, the Android app sets up an automatic data and audio/video link so that operators can control some settings of the caller’s camera, send text to the phone that is read aloud by the speakerphone, and gather any data like heart rate and blood pressure measured by the phone itself. It also has a feature that provides automatic monitoring of CPR chest compressions, guiding the u...
Source: Medgadget - June 12, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Editors Tags: Net News Source Type: blogs

Electronic records – scrap “meaningful use” and demand easy sharing
Yesterday I had a great time talking with an intern who was my 3rd year student 2 years ago. His experiences during his internship influenced this question – why do electronic computer systems not share information? I had no good answer. Perhaps we worry about the NSA tapping into the records, but what would they do. While working at the VA, we often took advantage of the common medical record. Having good records allows one to avoid unnecessary repeat testing. It allows us to do better medication reconciliation. It provides the most important thing that a new physician can have – historical documentation. In t...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - June 11, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs

Obama Administration Will Stop Trying To Block Some Emergency Contraception Access
Best news all day: ”The Obama administration has decided to stop trying to block over-the-counter availability of the best-known morning-after contraceptive pill for all women and girls.” The administration is withdrawing its appeal of a ruling that requires emergency contraception pills to be made available without prescription, regardless of age. This is good news for access to the one-pill form of emergency contraception. In not-so-good news, the administration may still interfere with over-the-counter access to the two-dose form of the drug. Although the previous ruling required that the two-pill form be ...
Source: Our Bodies Our Blog - June 11, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Rachel Tags: Activism & Resources Birth Control & Family Planning Drugs & Pharmaceutical Companies Legal Politics Public Policy Source Type: blogs

A psychiatric disorder or a profound lack of discipline in our kids?
It is hard to see a child in pain. I have seen quite a few children in the emergency departments of South Carolina in the past three years, more than I could have imagined just a while ago. Now, in the interest of full disclosure, I am not a child psychiatrist by trade. Like any general psychiatrist, my training provided me with didactic and clinical training in a variety of sub-specialties in my field, including affective disorders, substance abuse, and the disorders that children may suffer from. Most hospitals that I work in now, desperate for help with children who come in sick and in need of assistance, grant me and o...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 11, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Tags: Physician Pediatrics Psychiatry Source Type: blogs

Obama Drops Bid To Block Wider Access To Morning After Pill
In an unexpected reversal, the Obama administration has decided it will no longer block over-the-counter access of the newer one-pill version of the Plan B morning after pill to girls or women, according to a letter the US Department of Justice wrote to a federal judge who had ordered widespread availability without any restrictions (here is the letter). “To comply with the order, the FDA has asked the manufacturer of Plan B One-Step to submit a supplemental application seeking approval of the one-pill product to be made available OTC without any such restrictions,” the FDA says in a statement. “Once FDA receives t...
Source: Pharmalot - June 11, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: esilverman Source Type: blogs

Medicare Officials Post Hospital Prices; A Step in the Right Direction
I am a supporter of greater transparency in hospital pricing. Unfortunately, the way hospitals price their services is so out of kilter that this will be a difficult goal to achieve (see: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us). Nevertheless, we need to be encouraged by some small steps in the right direction. A recent article reported that Medicare officials have now posted prices for 3,000 hospitals on the web to raise consumer awareness (see: Medicare Officials Post Prices of 3,000 Hospitals in Effort to Raise Consumer Awareness of Arbitrary Hospital Pricing). Below is an excerpt from the article: For the first time eve...
Source: Lab Soft News - June 11, 2013 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Healthcare Business Healthcare Delivery Hospitals and Healthcare Delivery Medical Consumerism Medical Ethics Source Type: blogs

Christmas Budget Build
Every Christmas my father gives me around $500 to spend on computer parts. I was thinking today that I should use that money to build an inexpensive emergency blogging computer. The total cost came out to be $555.93. I already have the case and my old video card from my last computer. I also have a spare monitor as well. I will pay for another copy of Windows 8 out of my own funds. Ironically, that is one of the more expensive items at $139.99. ASRock Z77 Extreme4 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard $134.99 Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 7...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - June 11, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Obama administration reverses course on Plan B pill
The Obama administration dropped its long-standing opposition to over-the-counter sales of a controversial morning-after pill Monday and decided to permit consumers of any age to buy Plan B One-Step without a prescription.In papers filed in federal court in New York, government attorneys announced that the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services would remove age and point of sale restrictions on the emergency contraceptive, pending approval by U.S. District Judge Edward Korman.The decision would not apply to similar brands of emergency contraceptives, ...
Source: PharmaGossip - June 11, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

HIP HIP HIPAA HOORAY! Where's My Medical Privacy?
And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets. * * * Today, I"m ranting about medical privacy (now gone) and electronic medical records over on KevinMD. The link is HERE. Did you know that hospitals now send your medical information to the state (at least in our state), whether you want that or not? And while you're rea...
Source: Shrink Rap - June 11, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs

Christmas Budget Build/Emergency Blogging Computer
Every Christmas, my father gives me around $500 to spend on computer parts. I was thinking today that I should use that money wisely to build an inexpensive emergency blogging computer. The total cost came out to be $555.93 after I gathered all the parts I needed and carefully weighed the price to performance. I already have the case and even my old video card from my last computer. I may even just use the Intel HD 4000 integrated graphics to make things simpler. I also have a spare LCD monitor as well. I will pay for another copy of Windows 8 out of my own funds. Ironically, that is one of the more expensive items a...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - June 11, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

AugMI Labs Seeks to Digitalize the Physical Exam, Wins Coveted Prize
Last year we covered the Glove Tricorder, a non-invasive, glove-based technology developed by AugMI Labs (Augmented Medical Intelligence Labs). Briefly, the glove uses advanced tactile technology and data analytics to quantify, digitize and analyze important physical exam parameters in the setting of telemedicine. Founded by two Harvard Medical School students, the glove has undergone several revisions in its new prototype. The medical glove allows for assessment of vital parameters on the fingertips of the user (blood pressure, pulse, and oxygen saturation) as well as parameters related to emergency illness, includin...
Source: Medgadget - June 10, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Ravi Parikh Tags: Diagnostics Medgadget Exclusive Source Type: blogs

The LITFL Review 105
Welcome to the 105th edition! The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around. The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beaut of the Week Emergency Medicine Ireland Andy Neil smashes out the top spot this week with his awesome review of the evidence sur...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 10, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Health Intensive Care LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs

The LITFL Review 105
Welcome to the 105th edition! The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around. The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beaut of the Week Emergency Medicine Ireland Andy Neil smashes out the top spot this week with his awesome review of the evidence surro...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 10, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Health Intensive Care LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs

A Little Stormy Weather is at Hand
I think I am slowly earning back some respect from my father. He’s seen me come an incredibly long way in these past five years. He treats me very differently these days than the days of old. We often talk on the phone and he is much, much kinder to me and forgiving of my foibles. He can be such a hard-ass at times. We just talked 30 minutes about the weather and my mother. My father is so irreverent when it comes to my mother. He will tell me of her shenanigans and will laugh and laugh. “You’re mother sure is a pistol!” he will often say. “She just had gas and heartburn,” dad said a moment ago of my moth...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - June 10, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

Are You a Marathoner, a Sprinter or a Procrastinator?
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post, Are you a tortoise or a hare about work? It was about the question of whether you’d prefer to work fewer hours over more days, or more hours over fewer days. I’ve been thinking more about this distinction. First point: I’m re-naming these categories marathoners and sprinters. A larger point: one reason that I’m a marathoner is that I really dislike deadlines. I really, really, really don’t like to have work hanging over me. For instance, when I was in law school, I had two major writing requirements to fulfill by the end of my third year, and I completed them both by the end of...
Source: World of Psychology - June 9, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Gretchen Rubin Tags: General Habits Happiness Self-Help Distinction Eagerness Journalist Law School Lawyer Lot Marathon Marathoners mean people Observation Opportunity Period Of Time Podium Procrastinator Sprint Sprinter Tortoise Source Type: blogs

Sunday News Round-Up, OBOS-Style
This week I’m highlighting some things from Our Bodies Ourselves! Some recent posts of interest that I have up at the Our Bodies Ourselves blog: New Developments in OTC Emergency Contraception Court Case The Obama administration – via the Justice Department – is still appealing the order that emergency contraception be made available to women and girls of all ages without prescription. So far the courts aren’t really going for it, having partially denied a stay pending appeal. Please do carry the appeal as far as you can, Justice Department, so we can have more illogical testimony on the record and ...
Source: Women's Health News - June 9, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Access, Rights, & Choice Adolescent Health Birth Contraception Global Issues Government Laws, Legislation, & Courts News Round-Ups Pregnancy Affordable Care Act books childbirth Educate Congress emergency contraception facebook Source Type: blogs

MERS Emergency
The U.S. government has declared Middle East Respiratory Syndrome an emergency. This isn’t a call for panic, but it should make us all think.Contributor: Mary Bodel MHPublished: Jun 08, 2013 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - June 8, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs

Martha, Give Me a Wake Up Call
Busy day today so I will be brief. The day started out early as I woke up at 8 am to a shrill alarm clock. I showered and dressed and headed to the Juneteenth Jubilee at 9am. I zeroed in on Mrs. Florene’s pound cake and bought it for $12. Mrs. Florene then introduced me to some of her recent church friends. Everybody was cordial. I only stayed about 30 minutes and then I headed to get Maggie. “This is my son’s best friend, Andrew,” Mrs.Florene would say as we greeted certain people. Getting Maggie home was a chore as Maggie weighs almost 30 pounds and I have to carry her. I don’t tru...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - June 8, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

New Developments in OTC Emergency Contraception Court Case
First, a quick refresher: A couple of months ago a judge ordered that emergency contraception pills (like Plan B) be made available over the counter (OTC) without age restrictions. The U.S. Justice Department appealed that ruling, and asked for a stay so that OTC access wouldn’t take effect during the appeals process. Around the same time, the FDA approved Plan B One-Step emergency contraception pills for purchase without a prescription for teens ages 15 and older. On Wednesday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals denied the stay for two-pill types of emergency contraception. This means that two-pill regimens should ...
Source: Our Bodies Our Blog - June 7, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Rachel Tags: Birth Control & Family Planning Drugs & Pharmaceutical Companies Legal Public Policy Youth Source Type: blogs

Aortic Dissection
Aortic dissection an emergency condition in which a tear forms in the wall of the aorta, which "dissects" (or tears apart) the layers of the vessel wall. Aortic dissection can rapidly lead to death....Read Full Post (Source: About.com Heart Disease)
Source: About.com Heart Disease - June 7, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: blogs

Healthcare Update Satellite — 06-06-2013
More HealthCare Updates from around the web are at my other blog at http://drwhitecoat.com. Remember the case where hospital administrator Bruce Mogel allegedly planted a gun in a doctor’s car then called the police to frame him because the administrator didn’t like the doctor’s criticisms of the way the hospitals were being managed? The doctor sued the hospital and won $5.7 million. Well a judge just threw out that judgment. Employers can’t be liable if the employee/officer’s actions are not reasonably related to the job or reasonably foreseeable. Patients gone wild. Combative New Jersey patients gets beat down...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - June 6, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Healthcare Update Source Type: blogs

Tell Me About Flight Nursing
I was asked to assist a nursing student with a project in which he needed to explore a specific type of nursing of his choice. I was honored and excited that he chose flight nursing. Below is my answer to him and thought it would be a good overview for anyone thinking about becoming a flight nurse as well. My official name/title is: Emily J. Bennett, MSN, RN, APRN-BC, CFRN, CEN, CCRN, NREMT-P (Nursing and its continued plague of credentials for “credibility” makes me insane, but it is the game we play) I am educated as an Adult Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, I have nursing certifications in flight, emergency an...
Source: crzegrl, flight nurse - June 6, 2013 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Emily Tags: Flight Nurse Long Form Post Flight Medicine HEMS Source Type: blogs

Funding Opportunities Roundup
Public Health Law Research: Making the Case for Laws That Improve Health (Round 3) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – Offers funding and technical assistance for research related to public health laws and their impact. Deadline: July 24, 2013 For more information: http://bit.ly/11Hu54y Native American Research Centers for Health (NARCH) National Institutes of Health – Offers grants for new or continued Native American Research Centers for Health, which support research and research training to meet the needs of American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities. Deadline: Letter of Intent (Required): Ju...
Source: BHIC - June 6, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Monica Rogers Tags: Scholarships and Grants Source Type: blogs

New Psychiatrist!
So far in my new doctor search, I have struck gold since I've moved! My appointment with my new psychiatrist couldn't have possibly gone any better, I don't think I could have liked her any more than I do. When I walked into her office - she had a little dog, JUST like mine, but maybe twice the size, which is still small, since Bailey weighs 6 pounds. I guess it's a therapy dog? It was a great conversation starter anyway, but she put him away which made me sad but probably very wise. I would have talked and gushed and played with the dog all hour which may have been why she put him in his crat...
Source: bipolar.and.me - June 6, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Source Type: blogs

FDA Must Make Some Plan B Morning After Pills Available
REPEATING FROM LAST NIGHT: In a setback to the FDA, a federal appeals court has ruled that the older version of the Plan B morning after pill can be sold to girls and women of all ages on an over-the-counter basis with no restrictions. But at the same time, the court ruled that the agency can continue to restrict access to a newer, one-pill formulation, which is called Plan B One-Step, while FDA officials appeal a lower court ruling (read the orders here and here). The ruling, which the FDA may still appeal, moves the agency a significant step closer to following its own decision in late 2011 to make emergency contraceptio...
Source: Pharmalot - June 6, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: esilverman Source Type: blogs

Saving Sarah Murnaghan
Federal judge Michael Baylson has done a number of things with his emergency order that placed 10 year old Sarah Murnaghan on the adult lung transplant list, as Fox News reported, most of them good, but one an opened can of worms.Contributor: Mark WhittingtonPublished: Jun 06, 2013 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - June 6, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs

I Can Hear You …
I think I’ve discovered what elderly patients feel like when everyone thinks that they’re too senile to understand the conversations around them and just talk about them as if they aren’t there. Like this … In one emergency department, the nurses regularly talk about me in loud voices as if I’m either deaf or unable to comprehend. Nurse 1 [to the ceiling]: This patient’s been ready to go for 6 milliseconds. Where are the discharge papers? Nurse 2 [loudly, standing 3 feet behind me]: I don’t know. He’s still charting on the patient. I’m not sure why he can’t just...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - June 5, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Random Thoughts Source Type: blogs

No meaningful use help for nursing homes
One of the things I learned from Holly Jarek at Seven Hills Pediatric Center is that pediatric nursing homes are not eligible for federal funding support for electronic health records (i.e, for "meaningful use.") The problem this raises is that the patient information systems between this kind of nursing homes (and adult ones, too) are therefore not integrated with the hospitals and physicians that serve these patients. The patients with the severe complex conditions found at Seven Hills are quite likely to need emergency or other treatment at Children's Hospital or other facilities. Holly pointed out tha...
Source: Running a hospital - June 5, 2013 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs

THIS Is What Happens When Patients Have Access To Their Reports
From Aunt Minnie's European Division:June 5, 2013 -- Earlier this year, two radiologists were physically attacked as they worked in their hospital in Belgium. One of them tells Frances Rylands-Monk, associate editor ofAuntMinnieEurope.com, about the frightening ordeal, and talks about the lessons for clinical radiologists who are in ever closer contact with patients.The day had started off like any other. I was steadily working through my morning's reports when my secretary came to tell me that two men were waiting outside to talk to me about an x-ray report I had done. My secretary thought they seemed odd, agita...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - June 5, 2013 Category: Radiologists Source Type: blogs

I met several CPR survivors today; I was involved with some of them
At the Fort Worth Municipal building, a gathering of AED/CPR survivors. I was told 10 of them; they came with their families, and there were a lot of lay rescuers and EMS, who as usual deserve the credit for a ‘save’, as if they don’t get the heart restarted in the field there’s not a lot we can do in the ER. I was also told I was involved in the care of 4 of them. Crazy odds. Two patients knew of me (probably from billing, frankly, none were awake in the ED), and they were 100% neurologically intact. We had nice chats, and I got my photo with both, but as I didn’t ask their permission to post...
Source: GruntDoc - June 5, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: GruntDoc Tags: Emergency Source Type: blogs

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 100: Getting Old
This week, FFFF is getting old – with its hundredth edition. The jokes are starting to sag, the factual reliability gave way long ago, but there is still a glimmer in its ancient roving eye. And this week the funtabulously frivolous focus is on… old things. Question 1. What is the world’s oldest surviving medical text? Reveal the funtabulous answer! expand(document.getElementById('ddet626372142'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink626372142')) Even in 1900BC, legal disclaimers were amazingly convoluted. The Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus. The Kahun Papyri were discovered near El-Lahun, Egypt in 1889 By ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 4, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Jo Deverill Tags: Arcanum Veritas Education Featured Frivolous Friday Five Health Medical Humor FFFF old Source Type: blogs

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 100: Getting Old
This week, FFFF is getting old – with its hundredth edition. The jokes are starting to sag, the factual reliability gave way long ago, but there is still a glimmer in its ancient roving eye. And this week the funtabulously frivolous focus is on… old things. Question 1. What is the world’s oldest surviving medical text? Reveal the funtabulous answer! expand(document.getElementById('ddet1416813207'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink1416813207')) Even in 1900BC, legal disclaimers were amazingly convoluted. The Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus. The Kahun Papyri were discovered near El-Lahun, Egypt in 1889 B...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 4, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Jo Deverill Tags: Arcanum Veritas Education Featured Frivolous Friday Five Health Medical Humor FFFF old Source Type: blogs

How's my list of schools look?
by EthylMethylMan (Posted Tue Jun 04, 2013 2:00 pm)I'm a white NY resident with a 3.71 cGPA and a 3.55 sGPA. My majors are premedical biology and forensic biology (the latter program is one that my university is very well known for). My minor is chemistry. I've taken two official AAMC practice MCAT's and got a 31 (11-9-11, AAMC #7) and a 34 (13-9-12, AAMC #10), so I'm expecting a 32 or 33 on the real deal. I have 160+ hours of emergency department volunteering, and 400+ hours of work as a paid employee at the same emergency department. I'm starting clinical research this Summer at a different hospital's emergency departmen...
Source: Med Student Guide - June 4, 2013 Category: Medical Students Source Type: blogs

GE OEC Brivo Plus C-Arm Now Available for U.S. Clinics, Surgery Centers
Having received FDA approval, GE Healthcare is making available in the U.S. its OEC Brivo Plus C-arm for basic intrasurgical imaging. A budget device that delivers an intuitive workflow, wireless connectivity, and something called Advanced Clear Intelligence imaging, the Brivo Plus is aimed at surgery centers that need a simple point and shoot C-arm for everyday applications. Here are device features according to the product page:Read More » (Source: Medgadget)
Source: Medgadget - June 4, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Editors Tags: Emergency Medicine Radiology Surgery Source Type: blogs

Using crowdsourcing technology to change the way we save lives
One scroll through your Facebook or Twitter news feed and you’d think the world was going crazy. People share their addresses, their heated political commentaries, and strange pictures of cats or food that seem to have absolutely no relevance to their lives or yours. Despite this, last March, I stood up on the stage at TEDxCollegeofWilliamandMary and spoke about the potential of using crowdsourcing technology to save lives. About two years, ago, I started the Lunas Project—an integrative disaster management platform that leverages crowdsourcing technology, SMS messaging, and mapping tools to improve disaster relief in...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 4, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Health 2.0 HIT/Health Gaming Innovation Technology Up-and-coming Disruptive Women crowdsourcing Social Media Source Type: blogs

New Health Affairs: Medicaid Expansion And Vulnerable Populations
Health Affairs’ June issue, released today, examines the challenges and benefits for states deciding whether to embrace the law’s Medicaid expansion or opt out. Several studies in the issue also look at population disparities in health care, especially during the recent recession. Selected content in the issue is supported by grants from the New York State Health Foundation and Blue Shield of California Foundation. Medicaid Opt-out: What Cost to States? Last summer’s US Supreme Court ruling about the Affordable Care Act allows states to decline the law’s Medicaid expansion provision, something fourteen governors h...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 3, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Chris Fleming Tags: All Categories Children Coverage Disparities Health Reform Hospitals Insurance Medicaid Nurses States Workforce Source Type: blogs

The new “house visit” … telehealth
Telehealth promises to lower costs and widen the reach of clinicians and will become a major differentiator for hospitals this year. Busy, tech savvy patients want more access to healthcare and as providers we have to go where our patients already are … at home! According to American Hospitals Association 70% of the “most wired” hospitals in America already provide telehealth. Leading this new strategy is England, where the National Health Service [NHS] has implemented a telehealth project, entitled “3 Million Lives”, by installing remote patient monitoring systems in patients homes. A previous pilo...
Source: Nicola Ziady - June 3, 2013 Category: Medical Marketing and PR Authors: Nicola Ziady Tags: Feature Posts Healthcare Marketing interactive marketing Source Type: blogs

Microbubbles Ultrasound Contrast Agent for Emergency Cardiac Diagnostics (VIDEO)
Myocardial infarctions (MI) are highly dangerous while being susceptible to life saving treatments if they are delivered soon after onset of symptoms. Yet, diagnosing MI outside the hospital without ECG, cardiac markers, or other technologies can be a challenge, one that can delay treatment and result in the gravest of outcomes.Jason Castle, a scientist at GE Global Research, has been investigating specialty microbubbles as an ultrasound contrast agent for seeing inside the heart. The microbubbles are tiny spheres about the size of red blood cells that are pressurized with gas and reflect ultrasound waves with high efficie...
Source: Medgadget - June 3, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Editors Tags: in the news... Source Type: blogs

American Sign Language Videos for Emergency Preparedness
The Illinois Emergency Management Agency and the Illinois Deaf and Hard of Hearing Commission developed a series of emergency preparedness videos in American Sign Language. Topics include: Build a Kit Sheltering in Place Going to a Shelter Emergency Planning for People with Special Needs Evacuation Storm – Before Storm – During Storm – After Access these videos and others: http://1.usa.gov/13zY7u9 (Source: BHIC)
Source: BHIC - June 3, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kate Flewelling Tags: Emergency Preparedness Multilingual Source Type: blogs

Review by Monitor of the provision of walk-in centre services in England
This review aims to review the extent to which closure of walk-in centres has limited people's ability to choose when or where they access routine or emergency primary care services without appointment. It will examine three issues: the changes to arrangements of walk-in centre services over the past two to three years; assessment of the impact of these changes on patient choice and competition; and developing a greater understanding of current commissioning practices in relation to walk-in centres and possible future developments. Monitor are seeking views on this review from patients, past and present provide...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - June 3, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Library Service Tags: Commissioning Consultations Patient involvement, experience and feedback Source Type: blogs

Conscious VF!
aka ECG Exigency 017.1 Yes, this is VF. Yes, the patient is conscious!! In fact, he remained surprisingly stable both before and after this remarkable 12-lead ECG was taken. Can you guess how this rare situation came about?? Answers on a postcard… The post Conscious VF! appeared first on Life in the Fast Lane medical education blog. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 2, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Edward Burns Tags: ECG Education Emergency Medicine Featured Health Intensive Care 12 lead conscious ECG Exigency ventricular fibrillation VF Source Type: blogs