Magnetic Tentacle Robot Travels Deep into Lungs
Researchers at the University of Leeds in the UK have created a magnetic “tentacle robot” that is just 2 mm in diameter, which they hope will be able to navigate through some of the smallest airways in our lungs. At present, a bronchoscope is used to investigate the lungs, but this cannot pass into very narrow airways without an additional catheter attachment. This arrangement is cumbersome and difficult to navigate. This new technology is controlled autonomously using external magnets mounted on robotic arms and does not require X-ray imaging during the procedure. The researchers hope that the device will aid clinicia...
Source: Medgadget - March 25, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Critical Care Diagnostics Pathology Radiology Surgery Source Type: blogs
Celebrating my unique path in life and medicine: a delivery room diagnosis of Down syndrome
January 24, 2014, was a typical day for me, spent hurrying up and down the halls outside the operating rooms at the hospital where I was an attending anesthesiologist. I often“ran the board” or was the charge person, and I enjoyed being the facilitator. Each operation was written on a magnetic strip and weRead more …Celebrating my unique path in life and medicine: a delivery room diagnosis of Down syndrome originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 22, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/ashley-prince" rel="tag" > Ashley Prince, DO < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Anesthesiology Source Type: blogs
Rehab fails: What goes wrong in pain rehabilitation (1)
Well obviously I’m not going to cover everything that goes wrong – and certainly not in one post! But inspired by some conversations I’ve had recently, I thought I’d discuss some of the common #fails we do in rehabilitation. Things that might explain why people with pain are thought to be “unmotivated” or “noncompliant” – because if the rehab doesn’t ‘work’ of course it’s the person with pain who’s at fault, right? So for today, here goes.
Starting at the wrong intensity
One of the main things that happens when someone’s in pain...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - March 20, 2022 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: ACT - Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Cognitive behavioral therapy Cognitive skills Motivation Occupational therapy Pain conditions Physiotherapy Psychology Resilience/Health Science in practice biop Source Type: blogs
The (sort of, partial) Father mRNA Vaccines Who Now Spreads Vaccine Misinformation (Part 2)
By DAVID WARMFLASH, MD
This is part 2 of David Warmlash’s takedown of Robert W. Malone’s appearance (transcript) on the Rogan podcast. Part 1 is here
Menstruation and Fertility
Much more than the line about reproductive damage in the Wisconsin News clip that we used to open the story, Malone used the Rogan interview to dive more deeply into the topic, starting with:
…there’s a huge number of dysmenorrhea and menometrorrhagia…
By that, he meant excessive menstrual cramping and very heavy, often irregular, bleeding, which he followed up with:
…they DENY it…
Judging by other parts ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 18, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy antivaxxer COVID-19 vaccine David Warmflash Joe Rogan Robert Malone Source Type: blogs
Prioritizing patient safety during a global pandemic
A guest column by the American Society of Anesthesiologists, exclusive to KevinMD. The refrigerated trucks had not yet left our parking lot when I got an email from the IT department. It was late spring 2020, and deploying a new electronic health record system for the anesthesia department was not front of mind. We had beenRead more …Prioritizing patient safety during a global pandemic originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 17, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/george-tewfik" rel="tag" > George Tewfik, MD, MBA < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Anesthesiology Hospital-Based Medicine Source Type: blogs
Making sense of pain
It’s been said many times, so many times I can’t locate the originator of the saying “humans are meaning-making machines” – no more so than when a person experiences pain. Whether it’s a stubbed toe, sprained ankle, thundering headache – or, in my case, weird and ongoing widespread body pain AKA fibromyalgia – we would like to make sense of what’s going on. And mostly we tell simple stories about what we were doing, what happened to the body and that’s that.
In the case of weird or persistent pains the challenge becomes harder. The original story might not fit ...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - March 6, 2022 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Coping strategies Research Resilience/Health pain management Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
Painless Nasogastric Tube Placement
A 6-year-old boy presented with intermittent abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. Because his abdominal examination was unremarkable, the pain intermittent, and constipation a possibility, we provided an enema along with an abdominal pain workup but no radiographs. His pain improved, the abdominal labs were unremarkable, and the child tolerated an oral fluid challenge after treatment with ondansetron.The mother was advised at discharge to return if she became concerned about her child's condition. They did return a few hours later for increased vomiting and abdominal pain. A CT scan demonstrated multiple dilated loops ...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - March 1, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Acknowledging and mitigating unconscious bias in health care
A guest column by the American Society of Anesthesiologists, exclusive to KevinMD.“Diversity is being invited to the party. Inclusion is being asked to dance.”– Verna Myers, diversity advocate Fostering a culture of diversity and inclusivity in health care professional organizations is important for many reasons, and thus should be a priority. First and foremost,Read more …Acknowledging and mitigating unconscious bias in health care originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 28, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/brooke-trainer" rel="tag" > Brooke Trainer, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Anesthesiology Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 28th 2022
In conclusion, as BMI and waist circumference are related to elevations of immune markers in the IL-6 pathway, chronic inflammation might be an important mediator of the relationship between BMI and frailty.
Fat Tissue Becomes Dysfunctional with Age as Mitochondria Falter
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/02/fat-tissue-becomes-dysfunctional-with-age-as-mitochondria-falter/
Mitochondria are effectively power plants, hundreds of them working in every cell to produce chemical energy store molecules to power cellular processes. Mitochondrial function declines with age, unfortunately, for underlying r...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 27, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Science Snippet: Get to Know Your Nerve Cells!
Nerve cells, also known as neurons, carry information through our bodies using electrical impulses and chemical messengers called neurotransmitters. A nerve cell’s size and shape depend on its role and location, but nearly all nerve cells have three main parts:
Dendrites that extend like branches and receive signalsA cell body containing the nucleus that holds the genetic material of the cell and controls its actionsAn axon, a long structure that transmits messages
A typical nerve cell. Credit: iStock.
The human body contains billions of interconnected nerve cells that carry information to, within, and from ...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - February 23, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Cells Cellular Processes Science Snippet Source Type: blogs
Stem Cell Therapies for Intervertebral Disc Degeneration
Stem cell therapies, and cell therapies in general, have tremendous promise in treating age-related conditions, particularly those that lead to structural damage in the body, such as degenerative disc disease. While animal studies have produced very interesting results, these therapies have yet to achieve more than initial goals in clinical practice, however. Hematopoietic stem cell transplants work well for the uses they are put to, albeit while being a comparatively stressful, higher risk procedure. Immunotherapies based on cell transplants are quite well advanced in the cancer field. First generation mesenchymal stem ce...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 22, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Reflective practice
In occupational therapy and some other health professions, reflective practice is a vital part of professional clinical activity. In others – not so much. And the term reflective practice has a heap of assumptions attached to it, so it may mean different things to different people.
I thought I’d unpack a bit about reflective practice today because I think it needs to be part of working with people experiencing pain. It helps us get out of our own mindset (when it’s done well), and opens a space for questioning what we do and why we do it – and as you probably all know, questioning is part of who...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - February 13, 2022 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Clinical reasoning Pain Professional topics Research Science in practice Therapeutic approaches critical thinking Health healthcare reflective practice supervision Source Type: blogs
Spotify, Joe Rogan, and Health Care
By KIM BELLARD
Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d have to write: the most interesting discussion in healthcare in the past week has been about Neil Young versus Spotify.
For those of you who have not been following the controversy, Neil Young gave Spotify an ultimatum: it could have his music or Joe Rogan, but not both. “I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them.” Spotify chose Rogan.
Mr. Young was not the first to express alarm at some of the Covid “informat...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Joe Rogan Kim Bellard Misinformation Neil Young Spotify Source Type: blogs
Prioritizing physician wellness: Reducing burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond [PODCAST]
“Ultimately, patients need doctors to help them be healthy, and need their doctors to be healthy to help them! Unless interventions are done now, our health care system risks a downward spiral. While the pandemic has brought increased levels of stress and burnout, it has prompted us to take action on mitigating this serious issue.Read more …Prioritizing physician wellness: Reducing burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond [PODCAST] originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 1, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/the-podcast-by-kevinmd" rel="tag" > The Podcast by KevinMD < /a > < /span > Tags: Podcast Anesthesiology Source Type: blogs
Prioritizing physician wellness: Reducing burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
A guest column by the American Society of Anesthesiologists, exclusive to KevinMD.com. The World Health Organization defines burnout in its International Classification of Diseases as chronic workplace stress that has not been adequately managed, resulting in depletion, mental distancing from one’s job, and reduced efficacy. Physician burnout rates were already high prior to the COVID-19 pandemic,Read more …Prioritizing physician wellness: Reducing burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 30, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/lalitha-sundararaman" rel="tag" > Lalitha Sundararaman, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Anesthesiology Source Type: blogs
