6 Techniques To Nail The IV Every Time
Did you get the IV?
Sometimes it seems like your performance on the whole call can be reduced to the success or failure of the IV start. Rarely does the successful treatment of the patient hinge on a successful IV placement but sometimes it can certainly feel that way.
The best way to ensure that you’re ready when that make or break it IV start does come your way is to start a lot of them when the pressure is not on. If you wait until game day to practice, you’re a whole lot more likely to fail.
The single biggest factor that separates the IV virtuoso from the weekend hacker is practice and experience, so when...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 1, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: EMT Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 17th 2022
This study investigated whether multimorbidity is associated with incident dementia and whether associations vary by different clusters of disease and genetic risk for dementia. The study used data from the UK Biobank cohort, with baseline data collected between 2006 and 2010 and with up to 15 years of follow-up. Participants included women and men without dementia and aged at least 60 years at baseline. The presence of at least 2 long-term conditions from a preselected list of 42 conditions was used to define multimorbidity.
A total of 206,960 participants (mean age 64.1 years) were included in the final sample, of...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 16, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Mitochondrial Stress Provokes Inflammation via Fragments of Mitochondrial DNA
A large body of evidence links mitochondrial dysfunction with chronic inflammation. These are both features of aging, but it appears that dysfunctional, stressed mitochondria are a meaningful cause of inflammatory signaling. Mitochondria can generate molecular fragments, such as pieces of mitochondrial DNA, that are recognized as potentially threatening by the innate immune system. These damage-associated molecular patterns are present in much greater amounts in old tissues, and the immune system reacts to them to produce lasting, unresolved inflammation, harmful to tissue function rather than protective.
In today's...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 12, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
115 Silence Quotes to Help You Relax and Bring Inner Peace and Stillness
When life is stressful, overwhelming or just plain too much then one of the most calming things is to spend some time in silence.
To renew your mind. To recharge your body and energy. To turn your perspective to a more positive and open one again.
So in today’s post I’d like to share the best 115 silence quotes of all time.
Timeless and grounding thoughts from the past 2000+ years to bring your inner peace, stillness and wise insights from the ones that came before us (and some who still walk this earth with us).
And if you want even more calming and uplifting inspiration then check out this post with quotes on inner ...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - September 28, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
113 Jealousy Quotes to Help You Avoid Envy and Live a Happy and Healthy Life
In this post I’d like to simply share the best and most powerful jealousy and envy quotes.
To help you to not get dragged in and down into those two destructive thought habits anymore (or at least a lot less often).
And to make you see how other people’s envy and jealousy is something you should not take too seriously or engage in because it's their problem and hurts them the most.
I hope you’ll find these quotes as helpful and impactful as I have to live a lighter, kinder and happier life.
And if you want even more helpful inspiration and tips then check out this post with quotes on dealing with toxic people and th...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - September 22, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
Lessons from the Queen
Happy Friday everyone. We usually do our regular Fun Friday article where we share something to make you smile as you head into the weekend. This week we thought we’d mix it up a bit and share some lessons learned from Queen Elizabeth who sadly passed away this week. We don’t like to get political here, so save that for other forums. However, it’s worth recognizing someone who served her nation for a long time. That’s impressive by any measure. Hopefully some of these will inspire you as you head into the weekend.
🇬🇧 👑 💷Timelapse of #QueenElizabeth face on bank notes going...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 9, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Healthcare IT Fun Friday Queen Elizabeth Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Motivation: 20 Tips to Help You Through The Midweek Slump
When Wednesday rolls around your motivation to keep getting things done may have lessened considerably.
I know that is sometimes the case for me at least.
So in this week’s post I’d like to share the top 20 tips and habits that help me to refuel my motivation to get past that midweek hump and keep working in a focused way until Friday afternoon is here and the weekend awaits.
I hope you'll find something here to help to make your Wednesday even better.
1. Start small (or tiny).
If a project, a task or the next step at work or in school today seems tough or daunting and you wind up procrastinating then break it down in...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - August 10, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Success Source Type: blogs
How to Win Against Your Favorite Distractions
What can you do when you realize that you’ve been wasting a lot of time succumbing to distractions, like endless social media or consumption-based activities, and it’s making you feel empty, hollow, disappointed, or even ashamed of yourself? How can you reboot and get your life (and your character development) back on track?
A key here is to raise your awareness of how this behavior pattern is punishing you and what you’re missing out on. And that’s the truth – you’re missing out on tons that life has to offer when you stick with the low-hanging fruit of repetitive but unfulfilling action...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - August 3, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Lifestyle Productivity Source Type: blogs
poem
SplitI have a hole in my heart that has a hole in itselfBuck shot straight through the chestA broken heart heals; this is worse I keep pouring stuff in and pouring stuff inBut can ’t find any reliefEverything leaks outAll that ’s left is a piercing griefI was once torn between two pathsNow I ’m clean torn in halfPart of me staggers down a road I ’ll have to learn to acceptWhile the other half wanders like a ghostIn the indigo shadows of a dark woodGetting tangled in a life I won ’t knowI hope to be whole againBut grief blurs the visionHere I am, walking just fine on My own two feet, my own two legs...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - July 17, 2022 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
July 14, 2022 Edition-----The biggest news this week was the assassination of the ex-PM of Japan – Shinzo Abe – who was a good friend to OZ incidentally.In the US we have had a wind-up to a busy summit season – NATO etc – and the ongoing war in Ukraine which is becoming a deepening, protracted and horrible situation which it seems hard to resolve sadly.In the UK Boris is out but not gone and the battle for the succession is off and rolling.In OZ we have Albo back and we need to work out what to mitigate these various natural disasters and actually get on with it!!!! The response has been pathetic so far I reckon!--...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 14, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 11th 2022
In this study we employ a transcriptome-wide and multi-tissue approach to analyze the influence of both LTDR and short-term DR (STDR) at old age on the aging phenotype. We were able to characterize a common transcriptional gene network driving inflammaging in most of the analyzed tissues. This network is characterized by chromatin opening and upregulation in the transcription of innate immune system receptors and by activation of interferon signaling through interferon regulatory factors, inflammatory cytokines, and Stat1-mediated transcription. We also found that both DR interventions ameliorate this inflammaging phenotyp...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 10, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The Contribution of Retroviral Transposable Elements to Aging
A growing body of academic work is focused on the activity of transposable elements in degenerative aging, and some of these projects may produce approaches to therapy based on suppressing this activity. Transposable elements are DNA sequences capable of copying themselves within the genome, thought to be the result of ancient viral infections, but which contribute to evolution by providing a ready path to mutational change. Transposable elements are suppressed in youth, but with age the regulation of gene expression becomes more ragged, and transposable elements exhibit ever greater activity. This is supposed by many rese...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 5, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Spray Blocks SARS-CoV-2 Entry into Nasal Cells
Researchers at the University of British Columbia, and collaborators, created a nasal spray that can block the entry of SARS-CoV-2 into cells in the nasal cavity, potentially offering protection and treatment for COVID-19. Excitingly, in lab tests, the spray appears to work against all known variants of the virus, including the Omicron variant, which shows some resistance to our existing vaccines.
The spray dramatically increased survival in a mouse model of severe COVID-19, highlighting its potential as both a treatment and a prophylactic. The spray contains a drug that inhibits an enzyme in the nasal cells that is in...
Source: Medgadget - April 18, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs
