" Seizure " in a 60 year old male
This 60 yo male had an apparent tonic clonic seizure. He had no history of seizures. He was unconscious for 8 minutes and slowly awoke in the ambulance, complaining of nausea only. First responders found him to bevery tachycardic, confused, perserverating and with no memory of the event. There was tongue biting. Lightheadedness continued.The tachycardia was gone by the time paramedics arrived.He had a prehospital ECG:What do you think?Interpretation. There is terminal T-wave inversion in V2, highly suggestive of Wellens ' pattern. But syncope or seizure alone, without chest pain, i...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - March 1, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
Heart-stopping brain surgery: a surgeon ’ s harrowing dilemma
An excerpt from of Paint and Pancakes. The epicenter of Jane’s cancer occupied some very expensive real estate between Broca’s area and the motor strip. Her ability to speak and form coherent words resided in Broca’s. A little further back was the Motor Strip, which controlled the movement of the right side of her body.
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Heart-stopping brain surgery: a surgeon’s harrowing dilemma originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 29, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Marc Arginteanu, MD Tags: Conditions Surgery Source Type: blogs
Radiology ’ s Next Phase: Real-Time Collaboration Leading the Way
The following is a guest article by Vivian Liu, COO at Braid Health
One thing in healthcare remains constant: the need for answers. This is why radiology is a pillar of our healthcare system because, without a diagnosis, there is no treatment.
In today’s digital age, people want things to be fast, convenient, and reliable. The same is true in healthcare. Patients seek fast, crystal-clear answers to their issues.
In the last 5–10 years, substantial innovations in imaging, particularly through deep learning methods of image classification, have emerged. A noteworthy development is the augmentation of radiology with A...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 29, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Braid Health Diagnostic Delivery Radiology Radiology AI Radiology IT Real-Time Collaboration Real-Time Radiology teleradiology Turnaround Time Source Type: blogs
How a simple chore transformed my perspective on medicine
My son was born in a small community hospital with breathing and heart issues requiring transfer to a children’s hospital several hundred miles away. I arrived at the children’s hospital, worried, exhausted, and overwhelmed many hours after he did. Everything had happened so quickly my head was spinning. After I checked on my son, I
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How a simple chore transformed my perspective on medicine originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 29, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Christine Marie Deeths, MD Tags: Physician Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Generative AI in Your Desk Drawer: A Wealth of Uses
Previous articles in this series introduced the role of generative AI in the healthcare back office and examined its use in billing and revenue management. We’ll cover a lot of other uses in this article.
Patient Contact and Care Management
CEO Rahul Sharma of HSBlox says that the next version of its CureAlign platform will use generative AI to help improve the care management processes in its CareTracker module.
Many patients need reminders, if not actually coaxing, to come in for appointments. The CureAlign platform personalizes outgoing communication based on past interactions with the patient. Sharma says that ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 28, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Administration AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Abhishek Sharma Accenture Administrative Burden AdvancedMD Amazo Source Type: blogs
An Update on Progress Towards Treating Atherosclerosis at Cyclarity
Today I'll point out an interview with one of the Cyclarity Therapeutics founders, illustrative of the degree to which biotech companies are at the mercy of regulators once they arrive at the clinical stage of development. Cyclarity, formerly Underdog Pharmaceuticals, is a spin-out from the SENS Research Foundation, an organization that aims to clear roadblocks in the translational research needed for the production of rejuvenation therapies. The program that led to Cyclarity was focused on finding a way to clear 7-ketocholesterol from the body. 7-ketocholesterol is a form of oxidized cholesterol, created as a result of ox...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 27, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Longevity Industry Source Type: blogs
Higher Risk of Myocardial Infarction, Heart Failure, and Atrial Fibrillation Noted After Spinal Cord Injury
There are several factors which increase the risk of cardiovascular disease in survivors of spinal cord injury. They have a greater prevalence of obesity, dyslipidemia, metabolic syndrome and diabetes mellitus. Energy expenditure is lesser both due to lack of motor function and lack of opportunities to engage in physical activity. Autonomic dysfunction caused by spinal cord injury is associated with abnormalities in blood pressure, heart rate variability, arrhythmias and blunted cardiovascular response to exercise which can limit the capacity to perform physical activity [1].
A recent large study from Korea compared over 5...
Source: Cardiophile MD - February 27, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Repeated Cycles of a Fasting-Mimicking Diet Reduce Measures of Biological Age
We report on the secondary outcome measures of the FMD-trial (NCT02158897) which are biomarkers associated with aging or age-related diseases, and metabolic syndrome, including visceral and hepatic fat, lymphoid/myeloid ratios, and blood markers, which were not investigated in the original report.
We show that 3 FMD cycles in adult study participants are associated with reduced insulin resistance and other pre-diabetes markers, lower hepatic fat (as determined by magnetic resonance imaging), and increased lymphoid to myeloid ratio, an indicator of immune system age. Based on the Klemera-Doubal measure of biological a...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 27, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Why Flight Emergency Medical Kits Need A Digital Health Upgrade
A few weeks ago a doctor used an Apple Watch to aid an elderly woman who suffered a medical emergency on a flight. NHS doctor Rashid Riaz, from Hereford, borrowed the device from a flight attendant to check the patient’s oxygen levels.
“The Apple Watch helped me find out the patient had low oxygen saturation,” the medic explained. Later, he also called on all airlines to consider having emergency physician kits as standard, which would ideally include tools to take basic measurements, diabetic and blood pressure meters, and an oxygen saturation monitor.
We all know that aircraft have some medical su...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 27, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers portable diagnostics emergency medicine Healthcare technology flight medicine wearables Source Type: blogs
Stellar Sleep Raises $6M to Help End Sleeplessness With the First Digital Sleep Therapy Platform for Chronic Insomnia
Stellar Sleep, which provides the first digital solution for chronic insomnia management, announced today a $6 million seed round, led by Initialized Capital with participation from Y Combinator, Lombardstreet Ventures, Switch Ventures, Moonfire Ventures, Scrum Ventures, 8vdx, and Goodwater.
More than 25 million Americans suffer from chronic insomnia – meaning sleep problems 3+ nights a week for 3+ months. The condition can lead to both mental and physical health issues, ranging from trouble concentrating to sleep apnea and heart attacks. For people suffering from chronic insomnia, superficial care advice (e.g. cutt...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 26, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT 8vdx Edrei Chua George Wang Goodwater Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Initialized Capital Lombardstreet Ventures Moonfire Ventures Parul Singh Scrum Ventures Stellar Sle Source Type: blogs
Increased Dietary Leucine Activates mTOR Signaling in Macrophages, Accelerating Atherosclerosis
Leucine is an essential amino acid, only obtained from the diet rather than synthesized by our cells. Leucine supplementation has been proposed as a way to slow the loss of muscle mass with age, as leucine processing becomes dysregulated with aging in a way that can be compensated for by adding more leucine to the diet. Whether this actually works is a matter for debate; the evidence is mixed. The question is never whether the mechanism exists, the question is whether it has a large enough effect size to matter.
Given this impetus for a greater intake of dietary leucine in later life, it is interesting to see the re...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 26, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Left Ventricular Noncompaction
Left ventricular noncompaction is an incidental echocardiographic finding in some while others may be symptomatic. In left ventricular noncompaction, there is a thin subepicardial compact layer and a thick subendocardial layer which is non-compact and has prominent trabeculations and recesses between the trabeculae. Blood flow into and out of these recesses can provide a spectacular view on colour Doppler echocardiography, almost looking like flames of fire near the apex, in the apical four chamber view. When non-compaction is associated with left ventricular dysfunction it is called left ventricular non-compaction cardiom...
Source: Cardiophile MD - February 26, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Living with pain is social: The Chronic Pain Couple book review
Over the past year or so I’ve kept returning to ‘the social’ part of our multifactorial pain experience.* Pain can be extraordinarily isolating, and our current sociopolitical emphasis maintains a focus on ‘what the individual should do.’ In New Zealand, our accident compensation legislation is a no-fault, 24/7 everywhere, all-the-time innovation but it falls short in critical areas. One is the continued focus on ‘physical findings’ to validate a diagnosis (and to show that the resultant impact on an individual is entirely due to a personal injury caused by accident), and the other...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - February 25, 2024 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Coping strategies Professional topics Health pain management Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
No, we can ’ t call OMT, as a re-vascularisation procedure.
Hi, welcome Mr George, I just reviewed your records. You have three blocks in your arteries supplying the heart.
Are they serious Doctor ?
Not really, but one of them appear tight
What should I do Doctor ? But, I am comfortable Doctor.
You may be. But I am not .You need to undergo some re-vascularisation procedure .
What do you mean by that Doctor ?
It means either a percutaneous coronary intervention with a stent or CABG.
Can I get my heart re-vascularised by drugs alone Doctor ?
No we can’t . Hmmm , wait, we do have something called OMT/GDMT. Can you put on hold for some time Mr George, ...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - February 25, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – February 25, 2024 – 73% of digital health vendors use FHIR APIs, 83% of clinicians think telemedicine is good for chronic condition management, plus 28 more stories
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
News
U.S. Reps Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Bill Foster (D-IL) introduced the Patient Matching and Transparency in Certified Health IT (MATCH IT) Act of 2024, which would standardize the way demographic information is entered into cer...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 25, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Accenture Authenticx Availity AXYS Biofourmis Brightside Health Dandelion Health Digital Health Collaborative Edifecs EHR Association Experity FHIR API Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features Healthcare Legislation H Source Type: blogs
