What's new in midwifery - mostly COVID related
The last collection of things you may want to know about. Firstly, COVID related:Asystematic review and meta-analysis of neonatal outcomes of COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy, published in Pediatric Research.Another,of the effectiveness and safety of COVID-19 vaccine in pregnant women, published in BJOG.Then, apopulation based matched cohort study of major congenital anomalies following COVID-19 vaccination and SARS-CoV-2 infection - two separate groups, using health records from Scotland, published in Nature Communications.Anda sequential prospective meta-analysis of clinical risk factors of adverse outcomes a...
Source: Browsing - January 26, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Unconscious + STEMI criteria: activate the cath lab?
Case submitted and written by Dr. Mazen El-Baba and Dr. Evelyn Dell, with edits from Jesse McLarenEMS brought a John Doe, in his 30s, who was found in an urban forest near a homeless encampment on a cool fall day. There were no signs of trauma on scene or on the patient. EMS reported an initial GCS of 8 with pupils equal and reactive. The patient had a witnessed generalized tonic-clonic seizure leading to GCS 4.Vitals: HR 45; systolic BP was 110-120; irregular respiratory rate; oxygen saturation was normal; tympanic temperature 30; glucose was 6. In the resuscitation room, the patient had another seizure that stopped after...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - January 21, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Jesse McLaren Source Type: blogs
Fighting the Wrong (Culture) War
By KIM BELLARD
News flash from the culture wars: they’re coming to take our gas stoves!
Well, actually, “they” are not, but the kind of people who got alarmed about it are a threat to our health, and to theirs.
The gas stove furor started with a Bloomberg News interview that Richard Trumka, Jr, a Consumer Product Safety Commission commissioner. “This is a hidden hazard,” he said. “Any option is on the table. Products that can’t be made safe can be banned.”
He was referring to the well known but little acknowledged fact that gas stoves emit various pollutants, especially nitrogen dioxide. Last ye...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Culture Wars Gas Stoves Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – January 14, 2023
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
2023 Health IT Predictions: Consumerism. Healthcare IT Today kicked off 2023 by asking the experts in our community to offer their thoughts on the year ahead. Our latest round of predictions kicks off with the ongoing consumerization of healthcare. Our experts say retail health and telehealth will continue to make gains as consumers vote with their feet ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
COVID-19 Compulsory Vaccination and the European Court of Human Rights
Silvio Roberto Vinceti (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), COVID-19 Compulsory Vaccination and the European Court of Human Rights, 92 Acta Biomedica 6 (2022): Between August and September 2021, the European Court of Human Rights rejected three requests for interim... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 14, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Milwaukee County Addresses Health Equity with Data and GIS Technology
Milwaukee County is at the forefront of addressing racial inequity. During the COVID-19 pandemic they cross referenced vaccination rates with the CDC’s social vulnerability index and plotted the results using Geographic Information System (GIS) technology. Armed with this powerful insight, the County was able to increase vaccinations in populations that needed them the most and by doing so increased the safety of the entire County. They are now incorporating an equity lens into other areas of public health.
Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity recently to sit down with Zachary Swingen, Lead GIS Coordinator at Milwauke...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Analytics/Big Data Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System CDC vulnerability index COVID-19 Vaccination GIS for Health GIS technology Health Equity Milwaukee County Office of Emergency Manag Source Type: blogs
Pharma – 2023 Health IT Predictions
As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Check out our communities predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media.
Check out our community’s pharma predictions.
Jesse Cugliotta, Global Industry GTM Lead, Healthcare & Life Sciences at Snowflake
Industry investments in data platforms to enable decentra...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT 2023 Health IT Predictions Abrpo BrainCheck Doceree Harshit Jain Ian Chen Jesse Cugliotta Kimberly Powell Lance Hill Lauren Ohlsson Mike Montalto NVIDIA Ofer Sharon OncoHost PathAI Pharma Source Type: blogs
No I didn't make it up
The claim that the Covid-19 vaccine caused Damar Hamlin ' s cardiac arrest was all over wingnut media. It made it onto Tucker Carlson, in fact. These people are not just liars, they are literally trying to kill you. (Source: Stayin' Alive)
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 8, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Foobaw and more
Let me start with Damar Hamlin. His physicians haven ' t said anything publicly about what happened to him, but there are basically two possibilities. First, it is obviously uncommon but not unheard of for apparently healthy athletes to suffer cardiac arrest during exertion. This happened to Boston Celtics star Reggie Lewis. I happened to be in Boston Garden watching the first round playoff game against the Charlotte Hornets on April 29, 1993 when Lewis collapsed. All of the spectators were baffled about what had happened. Doctors at New England Baptist Hospital later diagnosed him with a heart abnormality...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 6, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Case Against Race-Based Quotas in Pharmaceutical Trials
Michael Conklin (Angelo State University), The Case Against Race-Based Quotas in Pharmaceutical Trials (2022): In 2020, while over 5,000 people worldwide were dying from COVID-19 every day, Moderna intentionally slowed down enrollment of its vaccine clinical trial to focus on... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 6, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Lost Opportunities to Contain COVID-19 in China
Three years after the SARS-COV-2 virus emerged in Wuhan, China is now facing a tsunami of COVID-19 infections. The unprecedented spread of the disease appears to have been fueled by an ill-timed sudden change in COVID-19 policy and the lack of vaccination and boosting. A rethinking of national strategy could still help. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - January 6, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Jennifer Bouey Source Type: blogs
Evidence based medicine and politics
I ' m not sure if you can read this -- I have a cookie that gives me access, but the URL doesn ' t include the proxy server and it appears to be accessible. Let me know. Anyway, it ' sa discussion in NEJM of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. The USPSTF is a panel of clinical experts convened by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, AHRQ, which is usually pronounced like ark. It draws on available research to evaluate screening tests and preventive interventions. An A or B grade means they recommend it. A C grade means it might be worthwhile for some people, but you should discuss it with your doctor and ma...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 5, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Care aides in long-term care were traumatized during COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on long-term care in Canada. During the first two waves in 2020, over 80 percent of all Canadian COVID-19 deaths happened in long-term care homes. While vaccination and policy changes have helped to reduce the number of deaths, long-term care homes are still experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks and severe staffing shortages.
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Care aides in long-term care were traumatized during COVID-19 originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 4, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Carole Estabrooks, PhD, RN Tags: Conditions COVID Geriatrics Source Type: blogs
Going Viral
Helen Bramwell of StatNews is an excellent writer about public health. Here she interviews a bunch of scientists to ask what surprised them about Covid19. It ' s a long read, and I won ' t try to summarize it all, but a couple of points stand out.The first is that most experts originally thought, based on experience with other coronaviruses, that this one would be stable -- that it would not be able to mutate so as to avoid immunity from previous infections or vaccination. Therefore they believed that the pandemic would peak after a few months and we ' d enter an endemic phase. (You might remember those models from t...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 30, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Regulatory Cooperation in Vaccines in Asia-Pacific Region
Simon Lacey (University of Adelaide), Andrew D. Mitchell (Monash University), Regulatory Cooperation in Vaccines in Asia-Pacific Region (2022): This paper explores the massive strides that were made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic by national drug regulatory agencies (NRAs) in... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - December 30, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
