The Most Depressed College Majors
These college majors have a higher risk of serious mental illness, including depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - January 12, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Mental Health Source Type: blogs

Are these Hyperacute T-waves?
I received this ECG in a text message, with the message:" Hey, these look like hyperacute T waves to me, what do you think?  It ’s an intubated septic nursing home patient. "  " Here is her old ECG: "What do you think?Here is my response:" There is something wrong with this ECG.  It might be another case of pulse tapping artifact. Change the location of the limb Electrodes and repeat the EKG. All leads except lead I look bizarre. "So he repeated the ECG after moving the limb lead electrodes:Much less bizarre appearing, and without the suggestion of hyperacute T-wavesPulse Tapping ArtifactEver sin...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - December 5, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs

“Just Plain Actin’ Crazy” – A Quick Guide to Abnormal Behavior
I’m not going to beat around the bush about this. We deal with some folks who act weird. First you have the folks that you work with. As a group the EMS community can be a bit on the strange side. But right now I’m talking about our patients. The spectrum of odd human behavior can be so vast that we are often at a loss to classify the patients presentation. It can be difficult to separate the delusion from the hallucination and the paranoia from the psychosis. Was that an episode of hysteria or mania? Here’s a quick guide to the clinical definitions of these terms that we kick around when our patient’s...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 14, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: EMT Source Type: blogs

Suicidal Evaluation: The DEAD PIMP Assessment
It’s a difficult situation that just about every EMS provider has been faced with at some point. Someone, somewhere thinks a friend or loved-one wants to commit suicide and they call 911. You arrive on scene to find a healthy looking patient who is adamant that they have no desire to harm themselves or anyone else. They don’t want to go with you. And now, you’re faced with a challenging evaluation. This is a situation that experienced mental health professionals can find difficult. You have very little mental health training and you’re being asked to make a complex prediction about the potential future behavior ...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 2, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: EMT Source Type: blogs

What type of devices should a person with a pacemaker be cautious about? Cardiology Basics
Artificial pacemakers are cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIED) which give tiny electrical signals to the heart when the heart’s own pacemaker is not functioning well. Sinus node is the natural pacemaker of the heart, located in the upper part of right atrium near the orifice of superior vena cava. Pacemakers may also be used when the impulses from the sinus node are not conducted well to the ventricles in complete atrioventricular block. Pacing for bradycardia can be with single chamber or dual chamber pacemakers, depending on the indication for pacing. Dual chamber pacemakers are AV sequential pacemakers which...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 9, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs

The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
October 06, 2022 Edition-----In the UK the current Tory Government appears to have totally lost the plot and failed to even move to fix things – a real disaster I fear for millions.In the US Hurricane Ian seems to have been of Biblical Scale that will take years to repair the damage.In Europe we see the recession arriving.In OZ we are coping with the Optus data breach, an imminent and difficult Budget and the new Integrity Commission being sorted out!-----Major Issues.-----https://www.afr.com/technology/manufacturers-turn-to-robots-as-job-ads-go-unanswered-20220920-p5bjilHow a $1m robot solved this company ’s labour sh...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 6, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Five Ways To Stop Shiny Object Syndrome
Long before“Shiny Object Syndrome” was coined as a term, an insignificant blogger from Utah referred to a similar condition and called it Multi-Irons Syndrome. Are they the same thing?Shiny Object Syndrome — The Fancy Term for Something You’ve Been Doing All Your LifeThere is often a difference between what an expression means when it is coined and how people end up using it. People often don’t see eye to eye on these things. One group will insist on the academic or dictionary usage of a term or word, while the popular usage tromples all over them. Irregardless, we don’t have a lot of contro...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - September 25, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Depression Goodreads Source Type: blogs

Can Amazon Capitalize on its Purchase of One Medical? Four Steps Toward Analytical Success
There’s naturally a lot of buzz over the acquisition of One Medical by Amazon.com. All the big tech companies are convinced they can fix our health care system. Perhaps they will start serving up appropriate treatments the way they choose the movies we view or the political diatribes we consume. But I recently talked to Gus Malezis, CEO of the digital identity company Imprivata, to explore what Amazon has to do to make its investment pay off. Malezis pointed out that healthcare landscape is strewn with high-tech failures such as IBM Watson and Google Health. Patient data is just too scattered, too inaccurate, and too...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 16, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability Amazon Amazon Healthcare Google Health Gus Malezis Healthcare Data IBM Watson Imprivata One Medical patient data Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – September 11, 2022 – LG names 4 companies to help stand up its digital health business, ONC and HRSA team up to modernize Uniform Data System, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. News The LG Electronics North American Innovation Center, LG NOVA, selected four digital health companies among the nine finalists for its Mission for the Future global challenge program: Digital care platform Digbi Health, prec...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features Source Type: blogs

Tubal Coagulation: Burned Tubes Can Be Repaired
Fallopian tube coagulation is a common tubal ligation. Burned tubes can be repaired with a high chance of pregnancy success. The post Tubal Coagulation: Burned Tubes Can Be Repaired appeared first on A Personal Choice. (Source: Tubal Reversal Blog)
Source: Tubal Reversal Blog - September 6, 2022 Category: Reproduction Medicine Authors: Dr. Monteith Tags: tubal reversal surgery tubal surgery why tubal reversal bipolar burned and cut tubes burned tubes burnt tubes having monopolar reversing tubal burning tubal coagulation tubal ligation Source Type: blogs

Fingertip Sensor Measures Lithium Levels in Sweat
Researchers at UCLA have developed a fingertip sensor that can rapidly provide data on the levels of lithium in the body. Used as a treatment for bipolar disorder and depression, lithium requires very accurate and sensitive dosing, with too little providing no therapeutic benefit but slightly too much potentially leading to unwanted side-effects. At present, the most common method to assess lithium levels involves a blood draw and subsequent lab testing, which is inconvenient and cumbersome. The new electrochemical sensor incorporates a hydrogel pad that facilitates the sensitive measurements, which require an aqueous envi...
Source: Medgadget - August 29, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Medicine Military Medicine Psychiatry Sports Medicine ucla Source Type: blogs

Acute chest pain and a bizarre ECG
 Written by Pendell MeyersA middle aged adult presented with acute undifferentiated chest pain.Here is his ECG at triage:What do you think?I sent this ECG with no clinical information to Dr. McLaren, who replied simply " Artifact " . He is referring to an artifactual ECG pattern that corresponds with the cardiac cycle which is known as " arterial pulse tapping artifact. " See the discussion and links at the end of the post for more information, but this phenotype of ECG artifact is not yet well understood (to my knowledge). In some cases, it has been attributed to placement of an electrode near a pulsing anatomic...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - August 26, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs

Season of birth is not related to risk of developing anxiety or depression
By Emily Reynolds A new study has cast doubt on historic research suggesting that the season or month of someone’s birth is associated with an increased risk of certain mental health conditions. The paper, published in Scientific Reports, looks at symptoms of anxiety and depression among more than 70,000 older adults in Europe. And it finds that there is no relationship between when they were born and the likelihood that they experience anxiety or depression. A number of past studies have found a link between season of birth and mental health diagnoses: research has linked bipolar disorder and schizophrenia...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - June 8, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Developmental Mental health Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 25th 2022
We examined central genetic and environmental lifespan regulators (putative anti-aging interventions, PAAIs; the following PAAIs were examined: mTOR loss-of-function, loss-of-function in growth hormone signaling, dietary restriction) for a possible countering of the signs and symptoms of aging. Importantly, in our study design, we included young treated groups of animals, subjected to PAAIs prior to the onset of detectable age-dependent phenotypic change. In parallel to our studies in mice, we assessed genetic variants for their effects on age-sensitive phenotypes in humans. We observed that, surprisingly, many PAAI...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 24, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs