Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On Digital Health And Related Privacy, Safety, Social Media And Security Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - October 11, 2022.
-----This weekly blog is to explore the news around the larger issues around Digital Health, data security, data privacy, AI / ML. technology, social media and any related matters.I will also try to highlightADHA Propagandawhen I come upon it.Just so we keep count, the latest Notes from the ADHA Board were dated 6 December, 2018 and we have seen none since! It ’s pretty sad!Note: Appearance here is not to suggest I see any credibility or value in what follows. I will leave it to the reader to decide what is worthwhile and what is not! The point is to let people know what is being said / published that I have come upon, a...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
What are cardiac monitors? Cardiology Basics
Cardiac monitors are devices with displays to show ECG, heart rate and other parameters on a continuous basis, usually used in the intensive care unit, emergency department, ambulances or operation theatre. Earlier cardiac monitors had just ECG and heart rate displays.
Current multi parameter monitors have invasive and non-invasive blood pressure, respiration, pulse oximetry, pacemaker sensing and various other monitoring possibilities. It can give out alarms if heart rate or any other parameter is beyond the set limits. Alarms should be taken considering the current physiological state of the person. Someone with continu...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 5, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
What is the difference between invasive and non invasive ventilation? Cardiology Basics
Ventilator is a device used to support breathing. It is used when there is difficulty in breathing or when spontaneous breathing has stopped. Ventilator is an important life supporting device useful in many life threatening conditions.
Invasive ventilator is usually used in the intensive care setting or the operating room. An endotracheal tube is introduced under topical anaesthesia with sedation or general anaesthesia. The endotracheal tube is connected to a mechanical ventilator using appropriate connection tubing. In those who do not tolerate the presence of an endotracheal tube deep sedation and neuromuscular blockade...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 5, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Premature babies grow up. It ’s time to pay attention. [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “Premature babies (a.k.a. preemies) and their families are increasingly becoming a powerful voice in society. Life in and after the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is like being dropped off a cliff. I support the preemie community from pregnancy to NICU to home and
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 3, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Sepsis Sleuths
Sometimes we can be our own worst enemies without even realizing it. One devastating example is sepsis: our body’s overwhelming or impaired immune response to an insult—usually an infection or an injury to the body. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), sepsis affects at least 1.7 million people in the United States each year, and it can lead to tissue damage, organ failure, and death. (See our sepsis fact sheet for more information.)
Credit: CDC.
Sepsis is complex and not well-understood, so it’s challenging to diagnose and treat. NIGMS, along with its other NIH and Department o...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - September 13, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Tools and Techniques Computational Biology Research Roundup Sepsis Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links –10th September, 2022.
This article is adapted fromVoices in the Code: A Story About People, Their Values, and the Algorithm They Made,out Sept. 8 from Russell Sage Foundation Press.In May 2021, I got a call I never expected. I was working on abook about A.I. ethics, focused on the algorithm that gives out kidneys to transplant patients in the United States. Darren Stewart —a data scientist from UNOS, the nonprofit that runs the kidney allocation process—was calling to get my take: How many decimal places should they include when calculating each patient’s allocation score? The score is an incredibly important number, given it determines w...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 10, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Precautions for cardiac catheterization in a cyanotic child
Pediatric diagnostic cardiac catheterizations have come down with the availability of better imaging modalities which can give most of the details needed for management non-invasively. Still cardiac catheterization may still be needed in selected cases, leave alone the catheterization prior to pediatric cardiac interventions. Cyanotic child presents more challenges during cardiac catheterization, mostly due to the presence of hypoxia and polycythemia.
Hospitalization on the previous day will be desirable along with 3-4 hour fasting prior to procedure. As there is a chance for hemoconcentration during fasting, adequate hyd...
Source: Cardiophile MD - September 9, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: Angiography and Interventions Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – September 3, 2022
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.
Unpacking Healthcare’s IT Infrastructure Needs. Despite the industry’s move to the cloud, healthcare organizations are still in the IT infrastructure business. John Lynn spoke to several industry leaders about how orgs can best manage their existing infrastructure (and all its complexity) while planning for a future where less is likely to be...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 3, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Bringing eConsent to the Intensive Care Unit
The following is a guest article by Karen Maduschke, Sr. Director & General Manager, Patient Consent at IQVIA.
In the United States alone, 5 million people are admitted annually to intensive care units (ICU), where they receive acute care and monitoring for active emergencies. If they are a fit with the inclusion criteria, many of these patients can be ideal candidates for receiving investigational treatments that may save their lives while providing insights to researchers that could help save the lives of countless future patients.
In acute care settings specifically, the urgency of medical action can be keenly felt ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 1, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Clinical Trials eConsent GCP Guidelines ICU Informed Consent Intensive Care Units IQVIA Karen Maduschke LAR Legally Authorized Representative PI Source Type: blogs
Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 22 August, 2022.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.General Comment-----This week we seem to have more in the way of State-Based initiatives as well as the usual rubbish info sessions from the ADHA.Also the usual from of NBN news and news of #myHR Rule 42 – which I had never heard of!-----https://www.australianageingagenda.com.au/contributors/opinion/critical-staff-shortages-affect-more-than-frontli...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 22, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Long COVID cardiac studies: More questions than answers.
BY ANISH KOKA
The NIH recently announced $1.2 billion dollars in funding for research on Long COVID. This is in part because of a faction of scientists that have mined electronic health record databases to find evidence that the long term impacts of COVID on a variety of different organ systems is significant.
I have some concerns when it comes to the cardiac complications discussed related to Long COVID.
One of Dr. Al-Aly’s long COVID papers illustrates the issues with using large datasets to differentiate signal from noise. The authors used the US Department of Veterans Affairs national healthcare datab...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 15, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy cardiac long covid studies NIH Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 8th 2022
In conclusion, aging research will benefit from a better definition of how specific regulators map onto age-dependent change, considered on a phenotype-by-phenotype basis. Resolving some of these key questions will shed more light on how tractable (or intractable) the biology of aging is.
Does Acarbose Extend Life in Short Lived Species via Gut Microbiome Changes?
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/08/does-acarbose-extend-life-in-short-lived-species-via-gut-microbiome-changes/
Acarbose is one of a few diabetes medications shown to modestly slow aging in short-lived species. Researchers here take a...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 7, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The Unintended Consequences of COVID-19 Vaccine Policy: Why Mandates, Passports, and Segregated Lockdowns May Cause more Harm than Good
Kevin Bardosh (University of Washington), Alexandre de Figueiredo (London School of Hygiene& Tropical Medicine), Rachel Gur-Arie (Johns Hopkins University), Euzebiusz Jamrozik (University of Oxford), James C. Doidge (Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre), Trudo Lemmens (University of Toronto),... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - August 6, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Aging and the Severity of Inflammatory Infectious Disease Such as SARS-CoV-2
This article provides a pathophysiologic view of COVID-19 in older adults within the frame of inflammaging, with a focus on antiinflammatory treatments for acute and postacute disease.
How can Biology of Aging Explain the Severity of COVID-19 in Older Adults
Aging has been identified as one of the most relevant risk factors for poor outcomes in COVID-19 disease, independently from the presence of preexisting diseases. The COVID-19 mortality risk sharply increases for elderly subjects, as showed by the reports of China, Italy, and the United States. In particular, in Italy, case fatality rate for patient a...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 2, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On Digital Health And Related Privacy, Safety, Social Media And Security Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - July 26, 2022.
-----This weekly blog is to explore the news around the larger issues around Digital Health, data security, data privacy, AI / ML. technology, social media and related matters.I will also try to highlightADHA Propagandawhen I come upon it.Just so we keep count, the latest Notes from the ADHA Board were dated 6 December, 2018 and we have seen none since! It ’s pretty sad!Note: Appearance here is not to suggest I see any credibility or value in what follows. I will leave it to the reader to decide what is worthwhile and what is not! The point is to let people know what is being said / published that I have come upon.-----h...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 26, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
