MOC's Greatest Lesson
Yesterday, I read with interest the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists widely circulated piece authored by Lucia DiVenere, MA entitled, "MOC: ACOG's role in developing a solution to the heated controversy" published in the August issue of OBG Management. By carefully listing the numerous physician concerns with MOC (costs, relevance to practice, lack of data to improve care, (Source: Dr. Wes)
Source: Dr. Wes - August 15, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Westby G. Fisher, MD Source Type: blogs
MOC's Greatest Lesson
Yesterday, I read with interest the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists widely circulated piece authored by Lucia DiVenere, MA entitled, "MOC: ACOG's role in developing a solution to the heated controversy" published in the August issue of OBG Management. By carefully listing the n umerous physician concerns with MOC (costs, relevance to practice, lack of data to improve care, (Source: Dr. Wes)
Source: Dr. Wes - August 15, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: DrWes Source Type: blogs
How to improve the care of in-flight emergencies
“If there is a physician on the plane, please press your call light!”
The vast majority of doctors who have flown on airplanes have heard this, and most of us are willing, if not entirely eager, to respond. What follows is usually a far from ideal encounter with inadequate information, too much noise, a cramped space to work in and little knowledge of what is expected or even possible.
My experiences (I think there have been three) were people who had become dizzy or had passed out. One of them was pretty frail, but none required that we land before our destination airport. What I learned was that:
1. More than...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 8, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/janice-boughton" rel="tag" > Janice Boughton, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Cardiology Emergency Medicine Source Type: blogs
FDA warning on vaginal laser procedures should emphasize informed choices, not fear
On July 30th, the FDA sent out a stern warning against the use of energy devices (laser therapy) to perform “vaginal rejuvenation,” and for procedures to treat symptoms related to sexual function, because of worries about adverse events. I agree with the FDA that these devices need more study, clear indications, informed patients, and skilled and ethical physicians to be used safely.
However, I have concerns that the FDA, in an overabundance of caution, may limit availability of innovative therapies, which when used correctly may benefit women’s reproductive health. In addition, press coverage is causing confusion ab...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - August 2, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Hope Ricciotti, MD Tags: Health Menopause Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Come to Critical Care Collaborative 2018!
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This is a guest post by Diane Kelly, Intensivist and Educator at Epworth Healthcare, Melbourne.
The Critical Care Collaborative is a one-day conference with contemporary updates in Critical Care, delivered by entertaining engaging speakers, aimed at Intensive Care Registrars and Nurses…. why spend time searching for information when someone can just tell you about it? This year we are covering a very broad range of topics from Organ Donation and Obstetric ICU, to seps...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 17, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Conference critical care collaborative diane kelly Source Type: blogs
Each baby counts: themed report on anaesthetic care, including lessons identified from Each Baby Counts babies born 2015 to 2017
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists - Launched in 2014, the Each Baby Counts programme aims to reduce the number of babies who die or are left severely disabled as a result of incidents occurring during term labour by 50 per cent by 2020. In 2017, the College published a landmark report based on the care of 1,136 babies born in the UK in 2015 and found that 76 per cent of these babies might have had a different outcome with different care. It also included recommendations highlighting critical factors in the care of the many of these babies that may prevent these incidents in the future. Detailed furthe...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 17, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Patient safety Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
Could Have Social Media Saved Semmelweis?
Dr. Ignác Semmelweis, a Hungarian medical doctor, or ‘the savior of mothers’ suggested that hand sanitizing could save new mothers from “childbed fever”. However, the reflex reaction of his colleagues was rejection. For years, he strove for the introduction of handwashing in hospitals in vain. Being ostracized from the medical community, he died in a psychiatric ward from internal bleeding. Members of the staff beat him up. He was born 200 years ago. What if he could have shared his ideas via social media or peer-reviewed research? Could the power of online communities have saved him?
The tragic fate of a doctor g...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 14, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Bioethics Social media in Healthcare history online community research research community Semmelweis Source Type: blogs
Alleviating “Pregnancy Brain” With Appointment Reminders
The following is a guest blog post by Brittany Quemby, Marketing Strategist for Stericycle Communication Solutions, as part of the Communication Solutions Series of blog posts. Follow and engage with them on Twitter: @StericycleComms
Picture this: I’m standing on the tradeshow floor watching as people try to grab as much swag as possible. I’m speaking to someone who really isn’t listening to my spiel because they are only in it for the free pen. Then, I get someone who is fairly interested in our appointment reminder service. Thinking I’ve hooked, lined and sunk them, I am met with a familiar objection: “We d...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 12, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Blogger Tags: Care Management System Digital Health Healthcare Healthcare Communication HealthCare IT mHealth Patients Brittany Quemby Communication Solutions Series Health Care Communications Healthcare Personalization OBGYN Reminders Patient C Source Type: blogs
MRaCC Alice Springs – a retrieval experience like no other!
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This is a guest post by Dr Michelle Withers (@desertoak), emergency physician at Alice Springs Hospital
On February 12th, 2018, a new and completely unique service went live in Alice Springs – the Medical Retrieval and Consultation Centre (MRaCC). The Central Australian Retrieval service has been operating from the Alice Springs Hospital in conjunction with RFDS in various guises for many years, and we were first accredited for training in 2006. We already consider oursel...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 11, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Emergency Medicine Pre-hospital / Retrieval Alice Springs medical retrieval and consultation centre michelle withers MRaCC Source Type: blogs
Postpartum Anxiety: How to Get the Support You Need When You Are Feeling Overwhelmed
There is tremendous social and cultural hype around the joys, excitement, and wonder of pregnancy, birth, and raising children. Baby showers, parenting classes, and the array of pre-birth activities often convey the implicit and explicit message to parents-to-be that having kids is exclusively a magical albeit stressful experience.
This mythology does us a grave disservice by creating the sense that there is something shameful or abnormal about postpartum depression and/or anxiety. The truth is, negative emotional postpartum experiences are very common and tragically underreported as new mothers in particular often feel th...
Source: World of Psychology - July 8, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Julie K. Jones, Ph.D., LPC Tags: Anxiety and Panic Children and Teens Depression Parenting Psychology Women's Issues postpartum anxiety Source Type: blogs
Get The Best Clinic For In Vitro Fertilization
When God made the world, he gave ability, to each live substance to produce their generation. Processes may differ, but whether a human or an ameba, they naturally made their next generations. Living feels good when you see your child and it is also true that having no child is the worst thing in this world. People live just for their family and everyone’s wish is to play with their grandchildren at their senescence. After all, there is no other happiness exist than seeing smiles on your child’s face and listen their laughing. Lots of people can produce their own child, but there are some peoples who are not ab...
Source: Nurse Blogger - July 2, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Fabiola Panicucci Tags: Medical Services Source Type: blogs
Teens Explore Science and Health through Game Design
Educators often struggle to teach teens about sexual and reproductive health. Hexacago Health Academy (HHA) , an education program from the University of Chicago, leverages the fun activity of gameplay to impart these lessons to young people from Chicago’s South Side community. Funded by the Student Education Partnership Award (SEPA), part of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), in 2015, HHA assists teachers in their goal of helping teen students gain awareness and control over their health and also learn about careers in STEM and health fields.
Melissa Gilliam, founder of Ci3. Credit: Anna Knott...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - June 13, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Juli Rose Tags: Computers in Biology Infectious Disease Training Source Type: blogs
When outcomes are tragic, doctors suffer too
The vast majority of births and deliveries are joyful ones. Families celebrate the wonder of the new addition to their families, and clinicians go home at the end of the day with a sense of pride, deriving meaning from their professional lives. This is one of the reasons that many of us chose obstetrics in the first place.
But unfortunately, that is not always the case.
As an obstetrician, I know firsthand that there is virtually nothing as emotionally wrenching as a baby or mother suffering an injurious complication or dying during childbirth. Unanticipated, bad, even horrific outcomes sometimes happen — even when all p...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 9, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/meredith-d-davenport" rel="tag" > Meredith D. Davenport, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Malpractice OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
The questionable ethics of ultrasound in pregnancy
Having worked at both community hospitals and major medical centers, the issue of ultrasound in pregnancy has revealed itself to be more complex over the years. As a resident, I worked with an obstetrics office that only scanned their own patients who had private insurance and would send uninsured or Medicaid patients (often with a high risk of inadequate prenatal care) to the hospital late in the day to be scanned after their office had closed. While seemingly ethically deplorable, this was business as usual in that community. In the affiliated community-based obstetrics residency, obstetricians-in-training did not learn ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 6, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/cory-michael" rel="tag" > Cory Michael, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions OB/GYN Radiology Source Type: blogs
