LITFL Review 340
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Welcome to the 340th LITFL Review! Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the blogosphere’s best and brightest and deliver a bite-sized chunk of FOAM.
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The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week
Skeptic’s Gui...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 16, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs
Is this Eye Tracking Device the Future of Brain Injury Diagnosis?
The common test for brain injury involves waving a finger back and forth in front of the patient ’s face, and seeing how well they can track it. Instead of relying on such antiquated protocols and standard imaging technology to identify brain injuries, two sisters have developed an eye-tracking device that can diagnose brain trauma.In 2013, Uzma Samadani, MD, PhD, neurosurgeon and associate professor of neurosurgery at the University of Minnesota and her sister Rosina Samadani, PhD, entrepreneur and biomedical engineer, started Oculogica, a neurodiagnostic company with a focus on eye-tracking devices. Specifically, their...
Source: radRounds - June 21, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
LITFL Review 334
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Welcome to the 334th LITFL Review! Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the blogosphere’s best and brightest and deliver a bite-sized chunk of FOAM.
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The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week
Don’t Forget ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 4, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs
Do we need to take tackling out of youth football?
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As we learn more about the frequency and effects of concussions in football, we are increasingly being forced to face the question: do we need to take the tackling out of youth football?
A study published in the Annals of Neurology definitely begs that question. Researchers from Boston University examined the brains of 246 deceased football players, 211 of whom were diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. They found that the younger the players started playing tackle football, the earlier they started showing symptoms of CTE such as neurological and behavioral problems. In fa...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - May 8, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Brain and cognitive health Children's Health Injuries Parenting Source Type: blogs
Ann McKee named to Time Magazine's Annual List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World
Ann McKee, MDDr. Ann McKee joins Rihanna, Donald Trump, and Oprah Winfrey on the list of Time Magazines ' s annual list of the100 most influential people in the world for 2018. The full list appears in the April 30 issue of Time Magazine. McKee is the chief of neuropathology at the VA Boston Healthcare System and director of the Boston University Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Center.McKee ' s research focuses on the long-term effects of concussion, subconcussion and blast injury in contact sports athletes and military veterans, including CTE. Her work has shifted the prevailing paradigm of scientific thought regar...
Source: neuropathology blog - April 26, 2018 Category: Radiology Tags: neuropathologists trauma Source Type: blogs
Science, Liability, Public Policy and the CTE “ Epidemic ”
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Should young athletes be allowed to play tackle football?
Are concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) a public health problem or merely one associated with professional sports?
Join experts in science, media, policy and administration at New York University, Wednesday April 18th, as they discuss whether our current understanding of head injuries and their pathology require immediate public action.
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Does the science support recent legislative efforts to ban youth tackle football for athletes under age 12?
Experts will present the current understanding...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 15, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The Future of Sports Medicine
Not only the experience of sporting activities and events, but also rehabilitation after sports injuries are changing due to cutting-edge technologies. In sports medicine, the future holds a shift towards prevention through genomics, nutrigenomics, countless trackers, and wearables, while there are many great technologies which aim to alleviate the pain and shorten the time of recovery – if, against all odds, a sports injury still happens.
Technology will change the experience of sports injuries and rehabilitation
When was the last time you went out for a run without Endomondo or had a bike tour without Strava? Have you ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 12, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine AR exoskeleton genomics health sensors Healthcare nutrigenomics prevention rehabilitation sports sports medicine trackers virtual reality VR wearables Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 233
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Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 233.
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 6, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five Bircher Bircher Museli Clare Stanton Ekbom syndrome II Ernest W Goodpasture Essex Lopresti Goodpastures disease hugo flecker irukandji irukandji syndrome jack barnes John Range Maximilian Bircher-Benner Pa Source Type: blogs
Understanding Headache Classifications
Many types and etiologies of headache and facial pain afflict our patients, and sorting through them can be a challenge. Craniofacial experts themselves, in fact, do not attempt to remember the subtle differences between the various conditions causing craniofacial pain, but instead refer to the third edition of the International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD-3). (https://www.ichd-3.org/.)The ICHD-3 can help the clinician manage patients presenting with headache as their chief complaint. An international panel of headache experts oversee the classification, which is currently published in a beta format s...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - April 2, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Physically Fit Women Nearly 90 Percent Less Likely to Develop Dementia
Women with high physical fitness at middle age were nearly 90 percent less likely to develop dementia according to a new study.byAlzheimer's Reading RoomThe information in this study is significant.An important finding of the study is thatwhen highly fit women did develop dementia, they developed the disease an average of 11 years later than women who were moderately fit, or at age 90 instead of age 79.Previous studies indicate that if the onset of Alzheimer's could be delayed to the age of 90,the number of people living with dementia would be cut in half.Currently,at age 80 there is a thirty percent of being diagnosed wit...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - March 15, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimer care alzheimers alzheimers research alzheimers statistics care of dementia patients dementia care exercise fitness women Source Type: blogs
The FDA-approved concussion blood test isn ’t ready for prime time
As an emergency medicine physician, a sports medicine physician who has spent countless hours on the sideline, and a concussion researcher, I spent a few minutes on Valentine’s Day reading with great interest the FDA release about a concussion biomarker. Currently, the diagnosis of a concussion is a timely, complicated task, taking into account both subjective historical elements and objective findings from the physical exam. The idea that a blood test could diagnose a concussion would be a game-changer. Unfortunately, after reading the release and the corresponding studies, we have yet to reach the goal line.
The blood ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 9, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/neha-raukar" rel="tag" > Neha Raukar, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Emergency Medicine Neurology Source Type: blogs
Give Your Course a Half Flip With a Full Twist | TAPP Radio 6
Newblood test for concussion. Whyred pens are not ideal for grading and feedback.Flipped learning isn't as hard as it sounds.If you cannot see or activate the audio playerclick here.(1:04) The FDA recently approved a new blood test for concussions. How is the test used and what does it tell us?FDA authorizes marketing of first blood test to aid in the evaluation of concussion in adultsConcussions Can Be Detected With New Blood Test Approved by F.D.A.GFAP | glial fibrillary acidic proteinUCH-L1 | ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase L1Concussions (Health and Medical Issues Today)(11:10) It ’s a small thing, for sure, ...
Source: The A and P Professor - February 26, 2018 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
Give Your Course a Half Flip With a Full Twist | TAPP Radio 6
Newblood test for concussion. Whyred pens are not ideal for grading and feedback.Flipped learning isn't as hard as it sounds.If you cannot see or activate the audio playerclick here.(1:04) The FDA recently approved a new blood test for concussions. How is the test used and what does it tell us? FDA authorizes marketing of first blood test to aid in the evaluation of concussion in adultsConcussions Can Be Detected With New Blood Test Approved by F.D.A.GFAP | glial fibrillary acidic proteinUCH-L1 | ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase L1Concussions (Health and Medical Issues Today)(11:10) It ’s a small thing, for ...
Source: The A and P Professor - February 26, 2018 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
FDA authorizes marketing of first blood test to aid in the evaluation of concussion in adults
Advances in technology are leading to a host of innovations around reducing and detecting concussions.Today, the FDA authorized the marketing of the first blood test to evaluate mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), commonly referred to as concussion, in adults.The FDA reviewed and authorized for marketing the Banyan Brain Trauma Indicator in fewer than 6 months as part of its Breakthrough Devices Program.The Brain Trauma Indicator works by measuring levels of proteins, known as UCH-L1 and GFAP, that are released from the brain into blood and measured within 12 hours of head injury. Levels of these blood proteins after mTBI/...
Source: Medicine and Technology by Dr. Joseph Kim - February 14, 2018 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
