How Significant is First Degree Heart Block?
First degree heart block is an abnormality in the electrical conduction of the heart noted on the ECG, the recording of the electrical activity of the heart. It is not a block in the blood vessels of the heart which we are more familiar with. The waves on an ECG are P, QRS complex and the T wave.
Normal interval between the onset of the P wave and the onset of QRS complex is up to one fifth of a second (0.2 seconds). When this interval is increased, it is called first degree heart block or first degree atrioventricular or AV block to be specific. Atria are the upper chambers of the heart and ventricles the lower chambers.
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Source: Cardiophile MD - April 23, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Harnessing Digital Innovation to Unlock Cancer Discoveries
By DOUG MIRSKY & BRIAN GONZALEZ
What if digital innovations could be the key to reducing the burden of cancer? CancerX was founded in 2023 as part of the Cancer Moonshot to achieve this goal. By uniting leading minds across industries such as technology, healthcare, science, and government, we are breaking down silos and leveraging digital innovation in the fight against cancer. With ambitious goals to cut the death rate from cancer by at least 50% and to improve the experience of people who are affected by cancer, digital innovation is critical.
As a public-private partnership co-hosted by Moffitt Cancer Center ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Health Tech Brian Gonzalez CancerX Digital Medicine Society Doug Mirsky Moffitt Cancer Center Source Type: blogs
Putting people in boxes
I just finished readingThe Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, by Meghan O ' Rourke. She lived for many years with a debilitating illness that went undiagnosed. She ultimately concluded that she had chronic sequelae of Lyme disease, likely complicated by autoimmune and other manifestations that may have been triggered by Lyme disease or possibly just co-occurring coincidentally. In her desperation to find relief, or at least answers, she saw innumerable physicians and other practitioners, ultimately resorting to people with, shall we say, unorthodox ideas who many people -- I included -- would classify as quack...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 13, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
MedEssist is Helping to Transform Pharmacies into Pharmacy Health Clinics
The healthcare system in many countries is stretched thin. To help relieve the pressure, governments are starting to allow pharmacists to treat a growing number of minor ailments. MedEssist’s technology platform is helping pharmacies transform into health clinics.
Healthcare IT Today got a brief demonstration of the MedEssist platform from Joella Almeida, CEO and Co-Founder at the Collision Conference. We also asked her about the expanding role of pharmacists in healthcare.
Pharmacies Are Already in the Community
“We are focused on helping independent pharmacies,” explained Almeida. “There’s one on every bloc...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 16, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Collision 2023 Collision Conference Joella Almeida MedEssist minor ailments Pharmacies Pharmacists pharmacy health clinics Source Type: blogs
Prompt Engineering For Healthcare: 11 Tips To Craft Great ChatGPT Prompts
In conclusion, as AI continues to grow and evolve, the importance of being adept at prompt engineering cannot be overstated. The ability to elicit useful and meaningful responses from AI can empower us to make the most of this cutting-edge technology. Remember, practice is key, and each question we ask is a step towards becoming more fluent in the language of AI.
In general, use it to expand your knowledge and ideas instead of solving things on behalf of you.
The post Prompt Engineering For Healthcare: 11 Tips To Craft Great ChatGPT Prompts appeared first on The Medical Futurist. (Source: The Medical Futurist)
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 22, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AI in healthcare AI in medicine AI text generator ChatGPT ChatGPT in healthcare prompt engineering Healthcare AI Source Type: blogs
The importance of listening in health care: a mother ’ s journey advocating for children with chronic Lyme disease
My husband, a physician, and I have four wonderful children – a son and three daughters. I look back over the past decade and wonder, “Why?” Why did my daughters contract Lyme disease and not my son or husband? Why was it so difficult to establish a diagnosis? Why are doctors specializing in treating patients
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The importance of listening in health care: a mother’s journey advocating for children with chronic Lyme disease originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 1, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cheryl Lazarus Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: An Interview with Meghan O ’ Rourke, Author of The Invisible Kingdom (Reprise)
By David Tuller, DrPH Last April, I interviewed poet, journalist and editor Meghan O’Rourke about The Invisible Kingdom, her insightful and affecting memoir of living with chronic illness. The book, a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award, has just been issued in paperback. So I figured I’d re-post the interview. As the […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - March 9, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized chronic lyme meghan o'rourke Source Type: blogs
November 2022: How to Kill Vampire Ticks Instantly
Yes, ticks are vampires. They need blood to progress from larva to nymph to adult and then for females to lay eggs. They can drink so much blood in one meal that they increase their weight several hundred times. Once engorged, they release their mouth attachments and fall off the host and progress to their next life stage.Ticks, depending on the species, can have up to three different hosts during a lifetime. Their complicated mouthparts—the hypostome, chelicera, and palp—allow the tick to attach and feed on animals and humans.The mouth of a tick. (Photo by the National Institutes of Health)Like most insects, ticks pro...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - October 31, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – October 30, 2022 – 46% of Americans have gone into debt paying medical bills, 41% say retail and virtual care experiences are disjointed, and more
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 and Studies
A survey from digital health platform Babylon found that 46% of Americans have gone into debt from their medical bills, while 34% are currently struggling to pay their medical and insurance bills. In addition, ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 30, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Revenue Cycle Management Altus Amazon Amazon Healthcare Aspen RxHealth athenahealth AtlantiCare B Source Type: blogs
What is complete heart block? Cardiology Basics
When natural pacemaker impulses from the sinoatrial node fails to reach the ventricles and activate them, it is known as complete heart block. The block could be at the level of the atrioventricular (AV) node or below that.
Sinus node is a subepicardial structure located in the upper part of right atrium near the orifice of the superior vena cava. Signals from sinus node travel to the AV node through three internodal pathways. They are Wenckebach, Thorel and Bachmann bundles. Bachmann bundle gives a branch to the left atrium also.
AV node is located near the atrioventricular junction in the lower part of right atrium. It ...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 17, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Is first degree heart block dangerous? Cardiology Basics
PR interval is measured from the onset of P wave to the onset of QRS complex. It includes the P wave and the PR segment. Normal PR interval is from 120 to 200 ms. If it is prolonged, it is called as first degree atrioventricular (AV) block.
PR interval is the time taken for activation of the atria and conduction of the impulses down to the ventricles and initiate activation of the ventricles. This includes the physiological delay in conduction at the AV node. The delay allows complete emptying of the atria before the ventricles start contracting. The atrial help to ventricular filling acts like an atrial booster at the en...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 14, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Answer to Case 690
Answer: Embedded hard tick, partially engorged with blood. As noted by Florida Fan, it is unfortunate that this tick was sectioned for histopathology, since " we need to examine the anal groove, the shield, the palpi, and the basis capitulum " in order to identify the tick to the genus and species level. This level of identification is helpful for patient management, since different species serve as vectors for different microorganisms. Additionally, finding an engorgedIxodes scapularisin a region of high Lyme disease endemicity may prompt antibiotic prophylaxis in certain situations. Without being able to ...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - July 31, 2022 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: An Interview with Meghan O ’ Rourke, Author of “ The Invisible Kingdom ”
By David Tuller, DrPH *April is crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley. If you like my work, consider making a tax-deductible donation to Berkeley’s School of Public Health to support the Trial By Error project: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/31347 Last Friday, I interviewed poet, journalist and editor Meghan O’Rourke about The Invisible Kingdom, her insightful and affecting memoir of living […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - April 19, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized chronic lyme Invisible kingdom O'Rourke Source Type: blogs
Climate Change: The Future of the Quality Movement
By MARIE DUNN
A little more than 20 years ago, the IOM report To Err is Human catalyzed the profession around the realization that our health care system was killing around 98,000 people a year from medical error. I am part of a generation of professionals that learned to adopt systems thinking; to measure, monitor, and improve; and to ultimately improve quality of care.
Today, we face a different set of challenges. Health care is in the midst of a global pandemic, a reckoning with systemic racism, not to mention the great resignation. But also, we face a climate crisis. Are these things connected? Is there som...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 18, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Climate Change Marie Dunn Pandemic Source Type: blogs
An Adolescent with dizziness and near syncope
Submitted by Maura Corbett, PA-C, written by Alex Bracey, with some comments by Smith and MeyersA teenage male presented to the emergency department with the complaint of dizziness with near-syncope. He was stable and able to provide a history and mentioned that he was asymptomatic while seated but dizzy and weak when attempting to stand. An ECG was recorded:What do you think? There iscomplete (third degree) heart block with wide complex bradycardicescape. The morphology is that of LBBB and so the escape is originating from the right bundle.The possible etiologies of this ECG are:- Structural/congenital heart di...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - August 7, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Bracey Source Type: blogs
