Advanced Wireless Neonatal Body Monitors to Improve Outcomes
Babies that end up in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) or pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) are monitored via a complex collection of sensors, each of which has a wire connected to a patient monitor. While necessary, all this technology makes it difficult for parents to bond with their children and for clinicians to access their patients.
Northwestern University engineers have developed flexible, wireless sensor patches that are able to collect the same vital signs as wired devices while offering an entire set of additional capabilities that existing commercial devices lack.
The new sensors are able to trac...
Source: Medgadget - March 11, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiology Critical Care Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Post #48 Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic Update
Well before news of COVID-19 wreaked havoc on our borders, travels, news cycle, and hand sanitizer supplies, influenza was quietly going about its yearly routine business with minimal hubbub from the media.To put things in perspective, consider that for the 2019-20 flu season, there have been an estimated 20,000 - 52,000 deaths thus far per the Center for Disease Control in the United States alone. That is just one country.In contrast, there have been approximately 3,600 deaths from COVID-19 worldwide. More deaths are sure to follow, and quite possibly, the final tally may far outstrip that of the seasonal flu.An unkn...
Source: A Pediatrician's Blog - March 8, 2020 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
COVID-19 – We are all in this together
Dr Andrew Davies COVID-19 – We are all in this together
Our need to bring our best selves to work has become more important in the face of this COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the globe. Many intensive care clinicians are presently overwhelmed by escalating numbers of critically ill COVID-19 patients whilst many others are carefully preparing for seemingly inevitable local outbreaks. There is an eerie feeling where […] (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 8, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Andrew Davies Tags: Infectious Disease Mastering Intensive Care Podcast corona coronavirus Coronaviruses COVID covid19 novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Source Type: blogs
Follow up after Critical Care
Dr Oliver Flower Follow up after Critical Care
Naomi Hammond talks about why follow up after critical illness matters, and why we need to know more about how to do it. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 1, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Oliver Flower Tags: Clinical Crit Care Intensive Care follow up Naomi Hammond Source Type: blogs
The best teacher of medicine I ever had
was during my medical residency. He was a tough, old-school physician, trained at one of the premier institutions in the country, and specialized in pulmonology and intensive care. Before I had even rotated through the ICU, I had seen him around on the medical floors —and must admit I didn’t […]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 - February 25, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/suneel-dhand" rel="tag" > Suneel Dhand, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Critical Care Source Type: blogs
World ’s First Portable MRI Cleared by FDA
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has revolutionized medicine, but MRI scanners are so demanding that access to them is still a challenge. MRI machines typically require specially built rooms with magnet quench vent pipes, entry systems that check people for metals attracted to magnets, and specific protocols to ensure safety. Patients, therefore, have to be brought to the MRI scanners rather than the other way around.
This is about to change in many cases, as Hyperfine, a company with offices in New York City and St Guilford, Connecticut, won FDA clearance for the first MRI scanner that can be wheeled to the patient bed...
Source: Medgadget - February 17, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Emergency Medicine Neurology Neurosurgery Radiology Source Type: blogs
As a registered nurse, I do not want to violate my patients ’ rights anymore
I am a critical care RN, and I violated my patients ’ rights. For decades, every day that I worked in the emergency department or the intensive care unit, I violated my patients’ federally protected rights to participate in their plan of care. I didn’t mean to, or want to, but my tasks to maintain their […]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 - February 15, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/beth-anne-algie" rel="tag" > Beth Anne Algie, RN < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Critical Care Hospital-Based Medicine Source Type: blogs
Mindful Daily Practice Offers an Antidote to Healthcare Burnout
By GREG HAMMER, MD
Burnout among healthcare professionals is at an all-time
high. Its drivers include longer work hours, the push to see more patients,
more scrutiny by administrators, and loss of control over our practice. We seem
to spend more time with the electronic medical record and less time
face-to-face with our patients.
I have faced burnout personally. My son passed away at the
age of 29, which was beyond painful. At the same time, I felt burdened by the
growing number and complexity of metrics by which I was judged at work. Days in
the operating room and intensive care unit seemed more and more exhausting,...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 15, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Physicians Burnout GAIN GAIN without Pain: The Happiness Handbook for Health Care Professionals Greg Hammer physician burnout physician wellness Source Type: blogs
Deciding When Enough is Enough in Caring for a Child
Tinslee Lewis, a critically ill 1-year-old girl born with a rare heart defect and severe lung disease, has spent her entire life in the intensive care unit at Cook Children’s Hospital in Texas and undergone multiple surgeries in attempts to save her life. Tinslee’s care team has determined that she has no chance for any meaningful survival and that ongoing intensive care is harmful and causing her undue suffering. They recommend withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, against the parent’s wishes. Tinslee’s fate is being debated in court.
The post Deciding When Enough is Enough in Caring for a Chil...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - February 10, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Susan Gilbert Tags: Health Care end of life Hastings Bioethics Forum Health and Health Care Life Sustaining Treatment syndicated Tinslee Lewis Source Type: blogs
Clot retrieval for stroke
Dr Oliver Flower Clot retrieval for stroke
A case example of a large vessel obstruction of the brain and our current techniques available to treat it. How we make decisions on endovascular treatment and management points for emergency and intensive care colleagues. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 6, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Oliver Flower Tags: Clinical Crit Care Alice Ma Brain EM cerebrovascular accident Clot retrieval endovascular thrombectomy stroke stroke thrombectomy Source Type: blogs
Why Are We Afraid of Grief?
After receiving news of a death, no matter our emotional state, most of us think to do at least some of these things: call others, check our schedules and arrange any necessary changes to accommodate the funeral or memorial service and any travel required, organize meals for the bereaved, visit the home or funeral home and leave offers of help, and comfort survivors.
Stop for a moment and think now about the people you encountered in your everyday life today, on the roadways, public transportation, in shops and offices of every kind, or just walking down the street. Might some of these have received that call and be grievi...
Source: World of Psychology - February 5, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jan McDaniel Tags: Grief and Loss Personal Self-Help Bereavement Source Type: blogs
Fat, Feed and Futility
Dr Oliver Flower Fat, Feed and Futility
Muscle wasting in intensive care is the thief of future health. Hugh Montgomery shows us what a big issue this is and what can be done to mitigate the problem. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 5, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Oliver Flower Tags: Clinical Crit Care CIAW CIW feeding Hugh Montgomery Muscle wasting Source Type: blogs
Serenno System Unveiled for Continuous Kidney Monitoring
Serenno Medical, an Israeli firm, has unveiled its Sentinel automatic device for monitoring and detecting kidney damage. Designed for use within the hospital, the Sentinel works by continuously measuring urine output and volume to help detect cases of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI).
These days, nurses typically manually measure the amount of urine a patient produces. This happens intermittently, so events of reduced urine flow indicating possible kidney damage can go undetected. Being able to monitor urine production as it happens can help to catch cases of AKI sooner and so deliver therapy while it’s still effective. ...
Source: Medgadget - February 4, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine Urology Source Type: blogs
The new coronavirus: What we do — and don’t — know
A rapidly evolving health story broke in late December when a novel illness originating in Wuhan, China made the news. Reports of the number of infected people swiftly rose, and isolated cases of this new coronavirus — dubbed 2019-nCoV by scientists — have appeared in several countries due to international travel. At this writing, almost 1,300 confirmed cases and over 40 deaths have occurred in China, according to an article in the New York Times.
Fortunately, public health officials in many countries, including the US, have put measures in place to help prevent further spread of the virus. These measures include healt...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 25, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Todd Ellerin, MD Tags: Health Source Type: blogs
What is Intensive Care really?
Dr Oliver Flower What is Intensive Care really?
Knowing how to manage dying is just as important as preventing it. - Alex Psirides (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 7, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Oliver Flower Tags: Clinical Crit Care Intensive Care SMACC19 Alex Psirides End of life end of life care ethics palliative care Source Type: blogs
