Healthcare Update Satellite — 02-06-2014
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Holy feces, Batman! How bad of a marriage do you have to be in for your wife to inject “fecal matter” into your IV line while you’re recovering from a heart procedure in the hospital? Whacked out wifey is a former nurse who will now enjoy an extended stay in Arizona’s Maricopa County jail. Thanks to PJ for the link!
Pennsylvania jury awards a $32 million judgment against two nurses who failed to notify an obstetrician about a change in the fetal heart rate for 13 minutes during the mother’s labor. Child later born w...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - February 6, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Healthcare Update Source Type: blogs
Mother’s Exercise May Boost Baby’s Brain
If a woman is physically active during pregnancy, she may boost the development of her unborn child’s brain, according to a heart-tugging new study of expectant mothers and their newborns. The findings bolster a growing scientific consensus that the benefits of exercise can begin to accumulate even before someone is born.
Previously the results were proven in non human subjects. However, brain activity in-utero was shown to increase in those babies whose mothers exercised even one hour a week. You can continue reading the article here.
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Source: Cord Blood News - January 17, 2014 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: joyce at mazelabs.com Tags: brain development Cord Blood medical research parents pregnancy affordable cord blood banking bone marrow breast feeding cerebral palsy cord blood banking cost comparison cord blood banking information cord blood stem cell bank cor Source Type: blogs
VItamin D and pregnancy
Vitamin D, the one we get from the sun provides help for the absorption of calcium. Calcium, as we all know, helps in the growth and strengthening of our own bones as well as those of our unborn babies. When women breastfeed, there is an inadequate amount of Vitamin D transferred to the baby. There is a real need for a supplement so your baby doesn’t suffer from the ill effects of Vitamin D deficiency. Read here for more information .
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Source: Cord Blood News - January 14, 2014 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: joyce at mazelabs.com Tags: babies blood disorder brain development Cord Blood medical research pregnancy stem cells affordable cord blood banking bone marrow breast feeding cerebral palsy cord blood banking cost comparison cord blood banking information co Source Type: blogs
Should you bank your baby’s cord blood?
By 2015, 10,000 cord blood transplants are projected to be performed annually using publicly banked cord blood. That still leaves about 70 percent of patients in need of a transplant without a matching donor, according to the Cord Blood Forum, a nonprofit, private foundation based in Davis, Calif., that advocates for physician education and public awareness of cord blood medical therapies.
Many more could be helped if baby’s cord blood were not thrown away, as it is in 96 percent of the nation’s 4 million annual births, they say.
You can read about umbilical cord transplants here .
For additional information you ca...
Source: Cord Blood News - January 10, 2014 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: joyce at mazelabs.com Tags: babies blood disorder brain development Cord Blood medical research parents pregnancy stem cells affordable cord blood banking bone marrow breast feeding cerebral palsy cord blood banking cost comparison cord blood banking inform Source Type: blogs
Medical Malpractice & Negligence Information - Medstak.com
The latest news and reports on hospital malpractice, medical negligence, birth injuries, and cerebral palsy. Find lawsuits and jury verdicts at Medstak.
Additional resources can be found in the...
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Source: Highlight HEALTH - November 15, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Source Type: blogs
Why Don't I Hate Walter White?
I'm back from vacation and Shrink Rap resumes, even in the face of the continuing federal shutdown.
Note that over on Clinical Psychiatry News, ClinkShrink wrote about "Trauma Informed Care" and how it has traumatized her, and I have an article on "Antipsychotic medications and The Psychiatrist's Dilemma."
So, I surfed over to Psycritic to read about all that is right with Breaking Bad in A Psychiatrist's Favorite Breaking Bad Moments. Like Psycritic, I too am a Breaking Bad addict -- come to it late, then caught up in real time. Maybe it's that we made popcorn during the episodes for a while, but the ri...
Source: Shrink Rap - October 13, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs
Some harsh words from Our Future
In the midst of the disastrous roll out of the ObamaTax, it's heartening to see that there may, indeed, be a light at the end of the tunnel:"A University of Michigan graduate penned an open letter ... as she described how President Barack Obama’s signature health care law hurts the working poor, and has “raped” her future."The 26-year-old, Ashley Dionne, is a 2009 University of Michigan graduate, who's had trouble finding jobs ("she was told she was “too educated and wouldn’t stay” at low-paying jobs"), and suffers from several serious health problems, including "ulcers, and mild cerebral palsy."Given all...
Source: InsureBlog - October 10, 2013 Category: Medical Lawyers and Insurers Source Type: blogs
Medical Mispronunciations and Misspelled Words: The Definitive List.
Hearing medical mispronunciations and seeing misspelled words are an under appreciated joy of working in healthcare. Physicians often forget just how alien the language of medicine is to people who don't live it everyday. The best part about being a physician is not helping people recover from critical illness. The best part is not about listening and understanding with compassion and empathy. Nope, the best part about being a physician is hearing patients and other healthcare providers butcher the language of medicine and experiencing great entertainment in the process. Doctors c...
Source: The Happy Hospitalist - October 2, 2013 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Tamer Mahrous Source Type: blogs
Book of Nurses: Tamara.
Tamara works in the Emergency Department at Caloundra Hospital on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia.
I never wanted to be a nurse.
I always wanted to be a mother.
When my waters broke, I was ready. My bag was packed. My carefully crafted Birth Plan laid out all the options. Only, it hadn’t taken death into account. Death of my dreams, my hopes, my very definition of “mother”, and most of all the death of my son’s independence…. the birth of his disability.
After life was carefully coaxed back into his heart, his lungs, his brain, his cells, we sat down with the paediatrician. The special care unit had ...
Source: impactEDnurse - September 6, 2013 Category: Nurses Authors: impactEDnurse Tags: ectopics Source Type: blogs
Happy 48th Birthday to Medicare!
It’s July 30, 2013. You are 48 years old, and if YOU TWO don’t have a Happy Birthday, who will? We will all suspect something is wrong. Maybe you haven’t been getting enough sleep, or maybe you are not eating right. The Congress isn’t treating you badly, is it? Maybe, too, you are both very proud of your lives, as you work your way through middle age; or maybe you are a little disappointed in your accomplishments.
Maybe you could have done more, and aren’t thinking right now about all of your millions of friends and supporters, let alone the nearly 1.5 million people who consider Medicaid and Medicare nothing les...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - July 30, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Aging Coverage Policy Insurance Medicare Source Type: blogs
The future of intuitive technology and neurocognitive care?
This article presents testing of DANA by 224 active duty U.S. service members in five operationally relevant environments (desert, jungle, mountain, arctic, and shipboard). DANA was found to be a reliable instrument and compared favorably to other computer-based neurocognitive assessments. Implications for using DANA in far-forward military settings are discussed. (Source: SharpBrains)
Source: SharpBrains - May 10, 2013 Category: Neurologists Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology Cori Lathan Dana NASA neurobehavioral neurocognitive neurocognitive assessment NPR TBI Source Type: blogs
Guest Post: A Physician Rebels Against Micromanagement by "'Leadership-Trained' Management Extenders"
Health Care Renewal presents a guest post by Dr Howard Brody, John P McGovern Centennial Chair of Family Medicine, Director of the Institute for Medical Humanities at University of Texas - Medical Branch at Galveston, and blogger at Hooked: Ethics, Medicine and Pharma. I recently heard from a physician whom I knew well in an earlier stage of her training—I’ll call her Pauline. She completed her training at one of the top children’s hospitals in the US, and served in several capacities in academic medical centers before her most recent job with a physician-owned for-profit practice. She called me to express her frust...
Source: Health Care Renewal - May 9, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: generic managers corporate physician mission-hostile management financialization Source Type: blogs
2 Studies Show Inflammation in Pregnancy Linked to Autism and Vaccines
Conclusion
The message here isn’t necessarily that viruses and bacteria damage the fetus; it is the mother’s inflammatory response. It is well established that vaccines cause systemic inflammation, which could be harming your child’s brain.
Think about this. 1 in 50 children now have autism!
Doctors and nurses will give you a lot of lip service telling you vaccines are safe. They have a nasty habit of assuming everyone is of the exact same health status and genetic makeup.
The fact is, they have no way of knowing if injecting you with toxic vaccines will injure your child’s brain in the long term.
As a concerned pa...
Source: vactruth.com - March 23, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jeffry John Aufderheide Tags: Jeffry John Aufderheide Recent Articles Top Stories autism C-Reactive Protein pregnancy Vaccine Safety vaccine schedule Source Type: blogs
Periventricular leukomalacia -MRI
A preterm baby delivered by caesarian section at 35 weeks
gestation with low APGAR scores on MRI (
for seizures) shows extensive cytotoxic edema of the white matter tracts
including gangliocapsular, pyramidal
tracts and corpus callosum with
periventricular punctate haemorrhagic foci (3 in number) with relatively
normal gray matter and subcortical regions possibly representing
periventricular leukomalacia (PVL), the form of neonatal encephalopathy.
Teaching points by Dr MGK Murthy:
1. PVL may or may not have long term morbidity
2. MRI is more sensitive and specific not only for
diag...
Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - March 18, 2013 Category: Radiologists Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs
A response to Hinojosa's "The Evidence-based paradox."
Jim Hinojosa (2013) wrote an interesting essay in the recent AJOT entitled "The evidence based paradox" which was published in "The Issue Is..." section. I believe that this is an important article to read and discuss.I was a little concerned when I was reading the article because although he took some rather specific steps to tread cautiously and he did not go so far as an outright rejection of an evidence-based model there is still danger in propelling our thinking backward when you express the kinds of concerns that he expressed.Hinojosa outlines barriers to EBP including possible inapplicability of the establishe...
Source: ABC Therapeutics Occupational Therapy Weblog - February 23, 2013 Category: Occupational Therapists Tags: evidence-based practice OT practice Source Type: blogs
