3D Printed Titanium Implants for Severe Spinal Deformities
Most medical implants are manufactured in quantity to cover large groups of people suffering from specific diseases. Those with rare conditions are often left out, but 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, now allows for the production of bespoke devices designed exclusively for individual patients. While 3D printing technology has advanced significantly over the past few decades, significant clinical and legal challenges exist that prevent its wider adoption in many spheres of medicine.
A diverse group of engineers, surgeons, and regulatory experts have been working together at the University Medical Cente...
Source: Medgadget - July 26, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Orthopedic Surgery Radiology Source Type: blogs
Doctors, listen up! You ’ll be a patient soon.
As I age, the probability of acquiring yet another health condition seems to, unfortunately, increase. There’s always one test or another that is on my to-do list, be it bloodwork, X-ray, MRI, or maybe a CT scan thrown in for good measure. I comply usually with a sense that it is for the benefit of […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 20, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/michele-luckenbaugh" rel="tag" > Michele Luckenbaugh < /a > < /span > Tags: Patient Patients Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Kidney stones: What are your treatment options?
If you’ve been diagnosed with kidney stones (urolithiasis), you may have several options for treatment. These include medical therapy, extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL), percutaneous nephrolithotripsy (PCNL), and ureteroscopy.
A brief anatomy of the urinary tract
The urinary tract includes
kidneys (two organs that filter waste and extra water from the blood)
ureters (two tubes bringing urine from each kidney to the bladder)
bladder (organ that collects urine)
urethra (a single tube through which urine in the bladder passes out of the body).
The evaluation for kidney stones
If your symptoms suggest kidney sto...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 18, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kevin R. Loughlin, MD, MBA Tags: Kidney and urinary tract Men's Health Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Centerline ’s Radiation-Free IOPS System for Minimally Invasive Procedures
Centerline Biomedical, a company based in Cleveland, Ohio, landed FDA clearance for its Intra-Operative Positioning System (IOPS). The product provides physicians with a radiation-free way to navigate through vasculature during minimally invasive procedures.
Currently, X-ray fluoroscopy is used to track where minimally invasive instruments are in a patient’s body. Danger results from ionizing radiation, but also from the low-resolution 2D grayscale images that clinicians have to work with. These can make it challenging to understand the location and position of instruments, often leading to long procedures, diffic...
Source: Medgadget - July 15, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Radiology Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
Harnessing innovative neurotechnologies to provide better urgent care at Banner Health
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For Banner Health, one of the largest non-profit health system in the United States, finding ways to make health care easier and better for our patients is at the root of everything we do. That’s why we are making significant investments into the digital health and neurotech space, trying to answer some common pain points.
Let me give you an example.
Last year, Banner Urgent Care turned to an innovative device, BrainScope One, to provide better care and to help save patients money and time, as it helps clinicians identify traumatic brain injuries and concussions.
This is an area of growing concern. Statis...
Source: SharpBrains - July 11, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Alexandra Morehouse Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Professional Development Technology Banner Health Banner Urgent Care BrainScope BrainScope One computerized tomography concussions digital health electrical signals electrodes head trauma Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 8th 2019
In this study, we identify a link between members of the genus Veillonella and exercise performance. We observed an increase in Veillonella relative abundance in marathon runners postmarathon and isolated a strain of Veillonella atypica from stool samples. Inoculation of this strain into mice significantly increased exhaustive treadmill run time.
Veillonella utilize lactate as their sole carbon source, which prompted us to perform a shotgun metagenomic analysis in a cohort of elite athletes, finding that every gene in a major pathway metabolizing lactate to propionate is at higher relative abundance postexercise. Us...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 7, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Acute MI, pain onset 24-48 hours ago. Should the patient go for emergent angiogram/PCI?
DiscussionWhich subacute STEMI should go to the cath lab?Simplified:IF there is subacute STEMI by ECG or other criteria AND:1. Symptoms onset is within 48 hours AND2. There are persistent symptoms OR persistent ST ElevationThen the patient should go for emergent angiogram/PCI.I think it makes sense to extend this beyond 48 hours because ischemia can be so intermittent.Schomig et al. randomized patients with:STEMI12-48 hours of symptomsNo persistent symptomsPersistent ST ElevationNo hemodynamic or electrical instability, no pulmonary edemaThe patients who received emergent PCI had significantly smaller median left ventricul...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - July 4, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
First Cryopreservation Following Use of Assisted Death Legislation in California
Simple human dignity and self-ownership demands the right to end one's own life on one's own terms, and to be able to help others achieve this goal where they are not capable of doing so themselves. Yet these acts remain forbidden to most people in most parts of the world. Painless, effective euthanasia requires medical assistance, and providing that service remains largely illegal. This state of affairs is slowly starting to change in the US, however, and so late last year the first cryopreservation following voluntary euthanasia took place.
Cryopreservation is the only presently available end of life option that o...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 3, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Of Interest Source Type: blogs
Artis icono Angiography Suite Now Includes Virtual Patients to Practice On
Siemens Healthineers has partnered with Mentice, a Swedish company that specializes in simulation solutions for endovascular therapies, to integrate the Artis icono angiography system with the VIST Virtual Patient offering.
Many of today’s advanced interventional procedures require quite a bit of training for physicians to perform them safely and effectively. In the angiography suite, specifically, there’s a great deal of equipment to work with, information to consider, and challenging cases to solve. Typically, clinicians have to do quite a bit of planning to practice and prepare for difficult cases, but th...
Source: Medgadget - July 1, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Neurology Neurosurgery Radiology Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
Don’t Treat Kids as Tiny Adults in Needle Thoracostomy
Pediatric needle thoracostomy is a rarely performed procedure, but one must know the technique and be prepared to perform it. It can be life-saving in the face of a tension pneumothorax. This is a simple procedure, but a few procedural fine points can guarantee success and safety.Adult Needle ThoracostomyWe have learned only relatively recently that most adult needle thoracostomies fail to accomplish their mission. A 5 cm angiocatheter inserted at the second intercostal space on the midclavicular line has been the Advanced Trauma Life Support guidelines recommendation for at least a decade. Unfortunately, we now know th...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - July 1, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Thunderclap headache: The “worst headache of my life”
Not all headache disorders are the same. An excruciating, sudden-onset headache known as thunderclap headache (TCH) is a medical emergency, very different from more common headache disorders such as migraine and tension headache. If you develop TCH, you should call 911 or immediately go to the closest hospital.
TCH is associated with a variety of causes, ranging from benign to potentially fatal. Urgent evaluation in an emergency setting is needed to quickly identify and treat any underlying condition.
Diagnosing and treating secondary thunderclap headache
When you arrive at the hospital, the medical team will want to confi...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - June 25, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Aneesh Singhal, MD Tags: Headache Health Source Type: blogs
Artificial Intelligence In Mental Health Care
Could the advancement of machine and deep learning algorithms be harnessed meaningfully in the area of mental health? Could depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or any other mental disorder be quantified so that technology could somehow add positively to their diagnostics or treatment? We tried to explore the uses of artificial intelligence in mental health care, and stumbled upon smart algorithms that support clinicians with early detection and diagnostics of mental health issues, with the flagging of suicide risks, and other ones that help patients manage their condition through counselling and constantly being t...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 25, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Rozina Bura Tags: Future of Medicine AI artificial intelligence bipolar disorder chatbots future of psychiatry mental disorder mental health mental health disorders mental health issues moodkit pacifica schizophrenia suicide thriveport woebot Source Type: blogs
CTs, MRIs, Ultrasounds: Differences, Risk & Benefits
What is a CT Scan?
A machine whirs in an arc around a patient, snapping a rapid-fire series of x-rays from different angles. These x-ray snapshots are combined by a computer to produce virtual cross-section images of the body. These are called CT scans, which stands for computed tomography (computer-generated cross-sectional images).
CT Scans Compared to Ultrasounds and MRIs
When the CT scan was first introduced in the 1970s it caused something of a revolution in medicine, allowing doctors to see the inner structure of the body in a way that had been previously hidden – without surgery. Parents often wonder which is more...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - June 18, 2019 Category: Child Development Authors: Dr. Alan Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog CT Scan Safety Top Children's Safety Source Type: blogs
Cracking the Herpes Encephalitis Code | Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
Conclusion
Herpes encephalitis may rule your body but don't allow the infection to take over your brain. Herpes encephalitis is suppressible and so its symptoms if managed with great attention.
Antiviral drugs such as Zovirax, acyclovir, Valacyclovir are some of the prominently used drugs in suppressing therapy of herpes infection.
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Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - June 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: anilkumar Tags: health and fitness Herpes Encephalitis symptoms of herpes encephalitis Source Type: blogs
