LVH and Anterior ST Elevation: is it OMI and would you activate the cath lab?
Written by Jesse McLaren (@ECGCases), with comments by Smith and Grauer A 50 year old presented with chest pain radiating to the shoulder. They had a history of an LAD stent 10 years ago and alcohol use disorder, with repeated visits for chest pain and two code STEMIs two years ago that found no occlusive disease. What do you think? There ’s normal sinus rhythm, normal intervals, normal axis, and normal R wave progression. There’s LVH with repolarization abnormalities, including discordant ST depression and T wave inversion inferolaterally and discordant ST elevation and tall T wave in V2. Are there...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - June 20, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Jesse McLaren Source Type: blogs
The Book of Ten Sayings 1
[Posts for the Book of Ten Sayings were misplalced on Dr.Bob ' s Reviews. They are now being moved here.] Please look here for philosophy and The Book of Ten Sayings 1Introduction This " book " was intended to be an entire book when first conceived, consisting on an elaboration of the ten most important sayings of all time. But life circumstances have held it back into a very incomplete form. But perhaps there is a kernel of wisdom somewhere here that will resonate with you and help you to grow into a better person and friend. The First Saying 1. Put God First .Some have accused God of...
Source: The Virtual Salt - June 18, 2022 Category: Neurology Authors: Robert Harris Source Type: blogs
Inside Boulder Care ’s $36 Million Series B & Scaling Telehealth Addiction Treatment in Medicaid
BY JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH
Telehealth addiction treatment clinic Boulder Care just closed a $36 million Series B. I’ve got Founder & CEO Stephanie Strong here to talk about the virtual care company’s medication-assisted approach to opioid and alcohol use disorder treatment, and its growing-bigger-by-the-day presence in the Medicaid market.
In fact, more than 95% of Boulder Care’s revenue comes in from Managed Medicaid plans, and this focus on making medications like Suboxone accessible to traditionally marginalized patients is not only better for patients (drugs like these can cut all-cause mortality r...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech WTF Health Bicycle Health Boulder Care Cerebral Medicaid Mental Health Stephanie Strong substance use disorders Source Type: blogs
Help me solve this puzzle
The IASP definition of pain is:
An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage.
Six key notes and etymology:
Pain is always a personal experience that is influenced to varying degrees by biological, psychological, and social factors.Pain and nociception are different phenomena. Pain cannot be inferred solely from activity in sensory neurons.Through their life experiences, individuals learn the concept of pain.A person’s report of an experience as pain should be respected.Although pain usually serves an adaptive role, it may ...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - June 12, 2022 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Pain conditions Research healthcare Source Type: blogs
Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On Digital Health And Related Privacy, Safety, Social Media And Security Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - June 07, 2022.
-----This weekly blog is to explore the news around the larger issues around Digital Health, data security, data privacy, AI / ML. technology, social media and related matters.I will also try to highlightADHA Propagandawhen I come upon it.Just so we keep count, the latest Notes from the ADHA Board were dated 6 December, 2018 and we have seen none since! It ’s pretty sad!Note: Appearance here is not to suggest I see any credibility or value in what follows. I will leave it to the reader to decide what is worthwhile and what is not! The point is to let people know what is being said / published that I have come upon.-----h...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - June 7, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
“Prohibition Theater” and “The Iron Law of Prohibition”
Jeffrey A. SingerA May 18 opinion column in theWall Street Journal by Joseph Grogan and Casey B. Mulligan titled “Fentanyl Overdose Rates Are Rising Fast” argued that to better address the overdose crisis, the Biden administration should tighten border security, give law enforcement better tools to combat the drug trade, toughen sentencing, and add illicit fentanyl and its analogs (easily created in clandestine labs) to the Drug Enforcement Admini stration’s Schedule 1 (“no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse ”), joining cannabis, LSD, heroin, MDMA (“ecstasy”) and other drugs wi...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 31, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Factors to weigh when choosing substance use disorder treatment
During the pandemic, the already significant number of people living with substance use disorder increased. According to data gathered by the CDC, in June 2020, 13 percent of Americans surveyed said they had started using substances (not including alcohol and tobacco) or increased their use in response to the stress of the pandemic. The numberRead more …Factors to weigh when choosing substance use disorder treatment originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 20, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/miles-j-varn" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Miles J. Varn, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Wearable Uses Microneedles to Track Metabolism
A team of researchers at the University of California San Diego created a wearable device that uses a disposable microneedle patch to continuously sample and analyze interstitial fluid. The wearable can measure glucose, alcohol, and lactate levels, all of which could be useful information for patients with diabetes. The disposable patch is attached to a reusable electronic device that can communicate wirelessly with a smartphone app and which can be recharged using commercially available wireless charging stations. The researchers hope that the technology can be adapted to measure other health parameters, significantly exp...
Source: Medgadget - May 16, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Materials Medicine Military Medicine Sports Medicine UCSD ucsdnews Source Type: blogs
The Dangers of Driving While Drunk
Content reviewed by Karen Rubenstein, LMFT, Chief Clinical Officer at Cliffside Malibu. Every day, an...The postThe Dangers of Driving While Drunk appeared first onCliffside Malibu. (Source: Cliffside Malibu)
Source: Cliffside Malibu - May 14, 2022 Category: Addiction Authors: Cliffside Malibu Tags: Addiction alcohol consequences drunk driving intoxicated Source Type: blogs
Study on the “ABCs of Mental Health” finds that simply believing you can improve mental wellbeing helps actually improve it
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
To Learn More:
Impact evaluation of the “ABCs of Mental Health” in Denmark and the role of mental health-promoting beliefs and actions (opens paper on Mental Health and Social Inclusion journal)
Study: Higher mental wellbeing (in 2016) seen to lower healthcare costs (in 2017)
The post Study on the “ABCs of Mental Health” finds that simply believing you can improve mental wellbeing helps actually improve it appeared first on SharpBrains. (Source: SharpBrains)
Source: SharpBrains - May 12, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Conversation Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning mental wellbeing mental-disorders mental-health-treatment mind Source Type: blogs
Alcohol in Our Lives: Curbing the Harm – An Address to the 2010 ALAC Conference
Sir Geoffrey Palmer QC (Victoria University of Wellington), Alcohol in Our Lives: Curbing the Harm – An Address to the 2010 ALAC Conference, Victoria U. of Wellington L. Research Paper No. 20 (2022): An address to the 2010 ALAC Conference,... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - May 8, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The Drink That Shrinks Your Brain – Even At Lowest Levels (M)
Averaging four drinks a day was linked to the equivalent of 10 years of brain aging. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - May 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Alcohol subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
The Pandemic, Bad Habits, Riskier Population Health & The Case for Prevention Coming from Newtopia
BY JESS DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH
With 61% of American adults reporting a negative behavior change – troubled sleep, changes in diet, increased alcohol consumption, more time on screens, etc. – as a result of the pandemic, AND healthcare payers looking at 2022 cost increases in the range of 8-10%, one has to wonder just how bad our collective health has become thanks to the past two years.
Jeff Ruby, CEO of tech-enabled habit change provider, Newtopia, shares some startling stats about our population’s health, particularly when it comes to those lifestyle-related metabolic disorders that his company is trying to pre...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 5, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech WTF Health Jess DaMassa Newtopia Pandemic WTFHealth Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 2nd 2022
In this study, we tested the therapeutic potential of VHHASC and a newly generated VHH against murine ASC (VHHmASC) to target ASC specks in vitro and in vivo. We show that pre-incubation of extracellular ASC specks with VHHASC abrogated their inflammatory functions in vitro. Recombinant VHHASC rapidly disassembled pre-formed ASC specks and thus inhibited their ability to seed the nucleation of soluble ASC. Notably, VHHASC required prior cytosolic access to prevent inflammasome activation within cells, but it was effective against extracellular ASC specks released following caspase-1-dependent loss of membrane integrity, an...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 1, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
