WALS NIH Director's Lecture: Reducing Firearm Violence: A Public Health Approach
David Hemenway, Ph.D., Professor of Health Policy, is Director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. He formerly spent a week each year at the University of Vermont as a James Marsh Visiting Professor-at-Large. The lecture will describe the enormity of the US gun violence problem and the public health approach for reducing that problem. It will illustrate the public health approach, including emphasizing the importance of data and research, with examples of ways to reduce suicide and unintentional firearm deaths. Dr. Hemenway teaches classes on injury and on economics. At HSPH he has won ten teaching awards as wel...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 4, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Data, Research and Firearm Injury Prevention
David Hemenway, Ph.D., Professor of Health Policy, is Director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. He formerly spent a week each year at the University of Vermont as a James Marsh Visiting Professor-at-Large.
Dr. Hemenway teaches classes on injury and on economics. At HSPH he has won ten teaching awards as well as the inaugural community engagement award.
Dr. Hemenway has written widely on injury prevention, including articles on firearms, violence, suicide, child abuse, motor vehicle crashes, fires, falls and fractures. He headed the pilot for the National Violent Death Reporting System, which provides detai...
Source: Videocast - All Events - July 19, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
December 2022: M2E Too! Mellick’s Multimedia EduBlog: Neonatal Intraosseous Needle Insertion Pearls
Manual and semiautomatic drill needle placement can have a high failure rate in neonates, and Dr. Mellick has advice and pearls for their use. Learn more in his video and blog at http://bit.ly/Mellick. (Source: Emergency Medicine News - Video)
Source: Emergency Medicine News - Video - November 30, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: video
November 2022: M2E Too! Mellick’s Multimedia EduBlog: How to Kill Vampire Ticks Instantly
Dr. Mellick found a surprisingly solution for removing an embedded tick with something you already have in your ED. Learn more in his video and blog at http://bit.ly/Mellick. (Source: Emergency Medicine News - Video)
Source: Emergency Medicine News - Video - October 31, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: video
October 2022: M2E Too! Mellick’s Multimedia EduBlog: Are We Doing Baby Breathing Treatments Wrong?
The evidence shows greater clinical improvement when bronchodilators are delivered by metered dose inhaler with a valved holding chamber or spacer. Learn more in Dr. Mellick’s video and blog at http://bit.ly/Mellick. (Source: Emergency Medicine News - Video)
Source: Emergency Medicine News - Video - September 29, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: video
September 2022: M2E Too! Mellick’s Multimedia EduBlog: The Torsed Testicle Traction Technique
Dr. Mellick invented a new maneuver for detorsing testicles that could increase the procedural success rate. Learn more in his video and blog at http://bit.ly/Mellick. (Source: Emergency Medicine News - Video)
Source: Emergency Medicine News - Video - August 31, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: video
July 2022: M2E Too! Mellick’s Multimedia EduBlog: Parenteral Diarrhea: Medical Myth or Reality?
Researchers have described parenteral diarrhea’s association with extraintestinal infections for more than a century, but the evidence is impressively limited, which perpetuates claims that it is a medical myth and not an actual clinical entity, Dr. Mellick says in this month’s video and blog. But the evidence suggesting it is an actual clinical entity is growing stronger. Read more at http://bit.ly/Mellick. (Source: Emergency Medicine News - Video)
Source: Emergency Medicine News - Video - August 9, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: video
August 2022: M2E Too! Mellick’s Multimedia EduBlog: The Nihilistic AAP Bronchiolitis Guidelines
The American Academy of Pediatrics’ bronchiolitis guidelines recommend stopping the mainstays of treatment, leaving physicians with essentially nothing but nasal suctioning, Dr. Mellick says in this month’s video and blog. And, he says, those can have real-life clinical consequences that can be dangerous and devastating. Read more at http://bit.ly/Mellick. (Source: Emergency Medicine News - Video)
Source: Emergency Medicine News - Video - August 5, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: video
June 22: M2E Too! Mellick’s Multimedia EduBlog: A New and Better Option for Ventilating Childre
EPs have known for a long time that they need better options for ventilating through a straw. Dr. Mellick talks in this month’s video and blog about a new manual, single-use, small-lumen ventilation device capable of controlled oxygen insufflation and expiratory ventilator assistance. Read more at http://bit.ly/Mellick. (Source: Emergency Medicine News - Video)
Source: Emergency Medicine News - Video - May 31, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: video
May 2022: M2E Too! Mellick’s Multimedia EduBlog: Should Immediate Manual Testicular Detorsion Become the Standard of Care?
Testicular torsion is a highly time-sensitive event for a patient and the survival of his testicle, and therapeutic nihilism about testicle survival after six to eight hours is widespread, resulting in unnecessary orchiectomies, Dr. Mellick says. Some torsed testicles are salvageable even at 24 hours, sometimes longer, but the clock is ticking the minute the retracting cremasteric muscle starts the spermatic cord twisting. Does that mean an immediate attempt at manual detorsion should become a standard of care? Dr. Mellick explains in this month’s video and blog. Read more at http://bit.ly/Mellick. (Source: Emergency Medicine News - Video)
Source: Emergency Medicine News - Video - April 29, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: video
