TechTool Thursday 038
TechTool review First Responder by Ryan Kohler Apps on iOS (iPhone and iPad)
Website: – iTunes - Website
First Responder has been developed by Dr Ryan Kohler, a Sports Medicine doctor who set up Sports Concussion Australasia. The aim of the app is that it is to be used on the sports field by parents/teachers/coaches to determine the likelihood of a significant head injury. It essentially helps them assess the athlete and indicates to them whether it is safe to play on, or if medical attention should be sought
Design and User Interface
The design is simple but clear, and the app ran very smoothly for m...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 19, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Tessa Davis Tags: Application Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured iOS Reviews TechTool first responder FirstResponder iPhone App Sports Medicine Tech Tool Source Type: blogs
TechTool Thursday 038
TechTool review First Responder by Ryan Kohler Apps on iOS (iPhone and iPad)
Website: – iTunes - Website
First Responder has been developed by Dr Ryan Kohler, a Sports Medicine doctor who set up Sports Concussion Australasia. The aim of the app is that it is to be used on the sports field by parents/teachers/coaches to determine the likelihood of a significant head injury. It essentially helps them assess the athlete and indicates to them whether it is safe to play on, or if medical attention should be sought
Design and User Interface
The design is simple but clear, and the app ran very smoothly for m...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 19, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Tessa Davis Tags: Application Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured iOS Reviews TechTool first responder FirstResponder iPhone App Sports Medicine Tech Tool Source Type: blogs
Coach gets failing grade in concussion training
Our state youth soccer association now requires all coaches to take an on-line training session (like this one from the CDC) about concussions. This is a good thing because concussions of boys and girls can be serious, especially if the child is prematurely permitted to play and experiences a second one. Here's the policy:The Massachusetts Youth Soccer policy on concussions is intended to be clear and unambiguous so as to accurately reflect the seriousness of concussion-related injuries and our unwavering commitment to keeping our children safe.A player removed from participation as a result of a head inju...
Source: Running a hospital - September 13, 2013 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
UCLA Engineer and Bruins Football Fan Develops Polymer to Prevent Concussions
The end of August marks the start of both NFL football and NCAA college football here in the U.S. With every new season come renewed fears of career-ending and health-endangering injuries. One of the scariest football-related injuries is a concussion, which, if severe enough, can lead to other life-long physical and cognitive problems. At the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), they take their football very seriously, so biomechanical engineering professor Vijay Gupta and his team came up with a way to reduce the G-forces a player’s brain would experience during a hard hit with just a 2 millimeter thick str...
Source: Medgadget - August 29, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Scott Jung Tags: Military Medicine Neurology Orthopedic Surgery Sports Medicine Source Type: blogs
UCLA Engineer and Bruin Football Fan Develops Polymer to Prevent Concussions
The end of August marks the start of both NFL football and NCAA college football here in the U.S. With every new season come renewed fears of career-ending and health-endangering injuries. One of the scariest football-related injuries is a concussion, which, if severe enough, can lead to other life-long physical and cognitive problems. At the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), they take their football very seriously, so biomechanical engineering professor Vijay Gupta and his team came up with a way to reduce the G-forces a player’s brain would experience during a hard hit with just a 2 millimeter thick str...
Source: Medgadget - August 29, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Scott Jung Tags: Military Medicine Neurology Orthopedic Surgery Sports Medicine Source Type: blogs
Update: The SharpBrains Guide, adopted as core reader in neuroscience and coaching course
Discussion Guide for The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness
“Use it or lose it” requires travelling out of our comfort zone
New science:
Reading or watching TV tonight?
Can mental training in compassion lead to altruistic behavior and better health?
Book review of Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined
Workouts at the (New Yorker) brain gym
New technology:
FDA clears use of EEG-based ADHD test
Nebraska football team developing 10-minute concussion test
Brain training going mainstream: new center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Can electricity-based brain stimulation harness neuroplasticity safely?
Finally, ...
Source: SharpBrains - July 30, 2013 Category: Neurologists Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness brain fitness enewsletter brain health enewsletter Brain-Fitness Brain-Training coaching EEG FDA neuroplasticity Source Type: blogs
Nebraska football team developing 10-minute concussion test [feedly]
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Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - July 9, 2013 Category: Neurologists Source Type: blogs
Youth sports should never knowingly risk brain damage
Repeated bumps to the head are bad for children. This sounds incredibly obvious, yet as a society, we don’t particularly act like we get it at all.
When the Bruins made it into the Stanley Cup finals, I thought about all the young hockey players who would be inspired to practice harder and play harder in the hope of one day doing the same. And I wondered: if they bumped their head hard enough in a practice or game to get a concussion, would they be willing to stop playing–for maybe even a year?
Continue reading ...
Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social med...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 9, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Tags: Conditions Neurology Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Nebraska football team developing 10-minute concussion test
Nebraska to study concussions (ESPN):
“…the day is coming when a football player who takes a hit to the head will come to the sideline, take off his helmet and slip on an electrode-covered mesh cap…The team’s medical staff will analyze the player’s brain waves on the spot and determine within minutes whether he can safely return to the game or whether he has sustained a concussion and, if so, how severe.
“There’s no question it’s going to move the dial forward,” NCAA chief medical officer Brian Hainline said. “The big, hoped-for dream would be, let’s have a biomarker in brain imaging. If you’re to t...
Source: SharpBrains - July 9, 2013 Category: Neurologists Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology biomarker Brain-Imaging brain-waves concussion concussion test football functional brain imaging Source Type: blogs
Reflections on the ACEM Winter Symposium 2013
Now in the West the slender moon lies low,
And now Orion glimmers through the trees,
Clearing the earth with even pace and slow,
And now the stately-moving Pleiades,
In that soft infinite darkness overhead
Hang jewel-wise upon a silver thread.
And all the lonelier stars that have their place,
Calm lamps within the distant southern sky,
And planet-dust upon the edge of space,
Look down upon the fretful world, and I
Look up to outer vastness unafraid
And see the stars which sang when earth was made.
Poem by Marjorie Pickthall, Canadian poet 1883-1922
The ACEM Winter Symposium in Broome was always going to be a little differe...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 20, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Michelle Johnston Tags: Conference Emergency Medicine Featured ACEM Broome david newman michelle johnston Trevor Jackson Winter Symposium Source Type: blogs
Why Soccer Players (Even Amateurs!) Could Be at Risk for Brain Injury
A lot of us ladies grew up playing soccer in grade school, high school and even college -- and many of us have probably played in adult leagues out in the real world, as well. (And then there are SELF staffers; my editor, Rachel, was a not-so-talented high school forward; our social media editor, Stephanie, played Division I soccer for Northwestern U.) That's why this new study is definitely worth nothing: Soccer players who "head" the ball frequently performed worse on memory tests, found researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, and brain scans showed abnormalities similar to patients with co...
Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S. - June 11, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Tags: Fitness concussion news outdoor exercise outdoors safety soccer sports study Source Type: blogs
The LITFL Review 105
Welcome to the 105th edition!
The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beaut of the Week
Emergency Medicine Ireland
Andy Neil smashes out the top spot this week with his awesome review of the evidence surro...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 10, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Health Intensive Care LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs
The LITFL Review 105
Welcome to the 105th edition!
The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beaut of the Week
Emergency Medicine Ireland
Andy Neil smashes out the top spot this week with his awesome review of the evidence sur...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 10, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Health Intensive Care LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs
Memories: The Day the World Went White
Today we’re going to share our most memorable diabetes day. You can take this anywhere.... your or your loved one's diagnosis, a bad low, a bad high, a big success, any day that you’d like to share. (Thanks to Jasmine of Silver-Lined for this topic suggestion.) It was May 1999, (it always seems to be May when such things happen, but I digress) and I'd just been diagnosed with diabetes 5 months prior. I'd worn glasses for nearsightedness for much of my life, and coupled with the diabetes diagnoses my vision was on a rollarcoaster. After diagnoses, however, things improved, went back to normal. One month after diagnoses,...
Source: The D-Log Cabin - May 15, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: HVS Source Type: blogs
