Twitter and the dissemination of research evidence
Trip aggregates some wonderful content. The main route for people finding this evidence is via search or by registering with Trip and indicating what topic areas they're interested (in which case we email the user with the latest research that matches their interests).Towards Christmas I started to experiment with using Twitter as a dissemination route. Basically, I created two topic areas (Primary care and Cancer) and starting tweeting simply the title of the article and the URL of relevant articles that were recently added to Trip. The Trip techie (Phil) suggested I use some tracking to see if people ar...
Source: Liberating the literature - January 17, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
Evidence Based Medical Decision Making Notes and Templates
by miamidoc13 (Posted Wed Dec 04, 2013 11:48 pm)Examples:Pediatric Head Trauma@AGE@ @SEX@ presenting with head trauma. Patient's neurological exam was non-focal and unremarkable. Canadian Head CT Rule was applied and patient did not have any of the following; GCS score < 15 at 2 hours after injury, suspected open or depressed skull fracture, any sign of basilar skull fracture, 2 or more episodes of vomiting, age ≥ 65 years old, amnesia for ≥ 30 minutes of events before impact, dangerous mechanism. 100% sensitivity (95% CI 92-100%) for predicting neurological intervention (Lancet 2001 May 5;357(9266):1391). I discus...
Source: Med Student Guide - December 5, 2013 Category: Medical Students Source Type: forums
Evidence Based Medical Decision Making Notes and Templates
by miamidoc13 (Posted Wed Dec 04, 2013 11:47 pm)Examples:Pediatric Head Trauma@AGE@ @SEX@ presenting with head trauma. Patient's neurological exam was non-focal and unremarkable. Canadian Head CT Rule was applied and patient did not have any of the following; GCS score < 15 at 2 hours after injury, suspected open or depressed skull fracture, any sign of basilar skull fracture, 2 or more episodes of vomiting, age ≥ 65 years old, amnesia for ≥ 30 minutes of events before impact, dangerous mechanism. 100% sensitivity (95% CI 92-100%) for predicting neurological intervention (Lancet 2001 May 5;357(9266):1391). I discus...
Source: Med Student Guide - December 5, 2013 Category: Medical Students Source Type: forums
The use of biomarkers to guide antimicrobial therapy
(Source: Notes from Dr. RW)
Source: Notes from Dr. RW - October 19, 2013 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Tags: infectious disease Source Type: blogs
EMA Journal August 2013
From Andrew Gosbell & Tony Brown
Issue 4 (Vol. 25) of Emergency Medicine Australasia published online on 2 August 2013
First Do No Harm. In Fact, First Do Nothing, at Least not a Cannula (#FOAMed)
This thought provoking editorial considers the potential cascade of over-investigation, diagnosis and treatment that may be initiated in the ED. Using the example of peripheral intravenous catheters (PIVC), where a recent study (Pain With No Gain?) demonstrated that 50% of PIVCs inserted in adult patients went unused, Egerton-Warburton (@First_do_noharm) one of that article’s authors, and Ieraci (@SueIeraci) conten...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 15, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: Education EMA Emergency Medicine Featured Journal ADAPT ADP Egerton-Warburton EMA Journal First Do No Harm NEAT Pain With No Gain? Sue Ieraci Source Type: blogs
Perhaps this meeting should be renamed "Of Microbiomes and Men" ....
Discussion – Pharma/Biotech/Food Industry Partnering
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You might think that at some point some of the people organizing meetings
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of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate
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Source: The Tree of Life - August 1, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
Post #39 Vomiting and Diarrhea (Gastroenteritis) in Children: A Practical Guide
It certainly looks, sounds and smells awful, but vomiting and diarrhea are rarely dangerous.Vomiting, not to be confused with spitting up, is the expulsion of food from the stomach. Spitting up is more of a laundry problem than a medical problem, and kids who spit up do not become dehydrated. Diarrhea is a little harder to define, because watery stools are fairly common and most healthy individuals will experience it from time to time for reasons which do not qualify as diarrhea.Frequent stools can be normal too, especially in breast-fed babies, who might dirty the diaper every time they feed, up to 12 times a ...
Source: A Pediatrician's Blog - July 13, 2013 Category: Pediatricians Source Type: blogs
Viruses might provide mucosal immunity
The mucosal membranes that line our respiratory, alimentary, and urogenital tracts and the outer surface of the eyes are portals of entry for microbes. The cells at these surfaces have functions that require that they are exposed to the environment – for example, gaseous exchange in the lung between inspired air and the blood. Mucus, pH extremes, enzymes, and immune cells are some of the antimicrobial defenses that are present at various mucosal surfaces. It now appears that bacteriophages – viruses that infect bacteria – might also be part of the mucosal antimicrobial defense system.
A sampling of the ra...
Source: virology blog - July 2, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information bacteriophage Ig-like protein mucins mucosal immunity mucus symbiosis viral virus Source Type: blogs
Viruses might provide mucosal immunity
The mucosal membranes that line our respiratory, alimentary, and urogenital tracts and the outer surface of the eyes are portals of entry for microbes. The cells at these surfaces have functions that require that they are exposed to the environment – for example, gaseous exchange in the lung between inspired air and the blood. Mucus, pH extremes, enzymes, and immune cells are some of the antimicrobial defenses that are present at various mucosal surfaces. It now appears that bacteriophages – viruses that infect bacteria – might also be part of the mucosal antimicrobial defense system.
A sampling of the ra...
Source: virology blog - July 2, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information bacteriophage Ig-like protein mucins mucosal immunity mucus symbiosis viral virus Source Type: blogs
A procalcitonin guided algorithm to guide antibiotic therapy in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock
(Source: Notes from Dr. RW)
Source: Notes from Dr. RW - June 19, 2013 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Tags: critical care infectious disease Source Type: blogs
medicalstate: As the popularity of smartphone of tablet...
medicalstate: As the popularity of smartphone of tablet computing expands, so too does the library of apps. The following is a list of iOS apps that might be of interest or use for the curious, for the learners, and for the clerks. Laboratory LabDx: A reference tool for common laboratory investigations. Acid Plus: A calculator tool that helps tease out the type of acidotic or alkalotic process involved. Lytes: A basic reference to the common electrolyte abnormalities, the causes, signs, and symptoms. Calculators BiliTool: An online tool that has an optimized mobile format, this tool helps calculate b...
Source: Kidney Notes - May 25, 2013 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
TWiM 53: Live in Manchester
On episode #53 of the science show This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Laura, David, Kalin and Paul get together at the Society for General Microbiology meeting in Manchester, England to talk about next-generation approaches to antimicrobial therapy.
You can find the audio for TWiM #53, along with show notes, at microbeworld.org/twim. Watch video of the episode below.
Behind the scenes in Manchester (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - March 30, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Microbiology Antibiotic Action antibiotic resistance antimicrobial bacteriophage therapy David Harper Kalin Vetsigian Laura Piddock microbe Paul Williams quorum sensing Source Type: blogs
Probiotics
: a Possible Tool in Oral Health Care?from Christof Godts, Gitte Loozen, Marc Quirynen and Wim Teughels writing in Oral Microbial Ecology: Current Research and New Perspectives:The human oral cavity is colonized by a wide variety of bacteria, which form very complex and dynamic biofilms on hard and soft tissues. Certain members of these microbiological communities are associated with oral infections, such as caries and periodontal diseases. New treatment approaches are emerging that do not rely on conventional antibiotic therapies, since complete eradication of pathogenic bacteria from oral biofilms is impossible and antib...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - March 28, 2013 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs
