" A patient just arrived as a transfer for NSTEMI. "
Conclusion: Our THANKS to Dr. Frick for his detailed and highly insightful presentation. CREDIT to him for masterful correlation of clinical events to each ECG — that thoroughly supports his explanation of the successful treatment received by this patient with evolving LAD OMI.QUESTION: Isn ' t it so much EASIER with the lead-to-lead comparison facilitated by Figure-1 — to see the subtle-but-important evolution of ST-T wave changes that so closely correspond to clinical events? (Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog)
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - December 7, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Willy Frick Source Type: blogs
Can You Drink A Juice Cleanse With Hypertension?
Conclusion
Navigating the crossroads of popular health trends and chronic conditions can be challenging. So, can you drink a juice cleanse with hypertension? Yes, but with an asterisk. The nature of the cleanse, your individual health, and the involvement of healthcare professionals all play a pivotal role.
The answer lies in striking the right balance – not too much sodium or sugar, an eye on potassium levels, and regular monitoring of blood pressure. As the experiences of Mark, Sarah, and John demonstrated, the journey is unique for everyone.
In the words of Dr. Naomi Fisher at Harvard Medical School:
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Source: The EMT Spot - June 23, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Rotman, MD, FRCPC, PhD Tags: Blood Pressure Source Type: blogs
10 Effective High Blood Pressure Treatment Methods: Your Essential Guide To Beating Hypertension
Conclusion
To summarize, early detection by watching out for symptoms of high blood pressure and prompt action are vital when it comes management.
Consulting a doctor to identify the cause of hypertension and addressing it at the root is crucial in preventing its recurrence.
While lifestyle factors contribute significantly to its development, high blood pressure can also coexist as a comorbidity with other health conditions.
While prescription medications prescribed by a doctor are highly effective, alternative approaches can be considered for non-critical conditions.
Incorporating lifestyle changes, such as...
Source: The EMT Spot - May 16, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Rotman, MD, FRCPC, PhD Tags: Blood Pressure Source Type: blogs
10 Effective Blood Pressure Treatment Methods: Your Essential Guide To Beating Hypertension
Conclusion
To summarize, early detection by watching out for symptoms of high blood pressure and prompt action are vital when it comes management.
Consulting a doctor to identify the cause of hypertension and addressing it at the root is crucial in preventing its recurrence.
While lifestyle factors contribute significantly to its development, high blood pressure can also coexist as a comorbidity with other health conditions.
While prescription medications prescribed by a doctor are highly effective, alternative approaches can be considered for non-critical conditions.
Incorporating lifestyle changes, such as...
Source: The EMT Spot - May 16, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Rotman, MD, FRCPC, PhD Tags: Blood Pressure Source Type: blogs
Comparing the Cost of IRA Energy Tax Credits to Expensing
Adam N. MichelThe House Republican debt ceiling package repeals many of theInflation Reduction Act (IRA)energy tax credits.Revised estimates of the tax credits confirm that their costs will be at least two times higher than originally thought.Putting aside the countless problems with each of the specific tax credits, it ’s worth comparing the size of the special interest IRA tax subsidies to other more beneficial tax changes Congress could have made. For example, the energy credits could end up costing almost twice as much as making full expensing permanent, the most pro‐growth investment incentive in the 20 17Tax C...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 27, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Adam N. Michel Source Type: blogs
Navigating gender identity confusion in a high-stress environment
As nurses in behavioral health, we were not well-versed in the field. After 33 years in ICU nursing, I left the unit expecting behavioral health to be an easier transition. However, the comparison between the two was like comparing apples to oranges. There was no real comparison between the two. One day, we admitted a
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Navigating gender identity confusion in a high-stress environment originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 4, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Debbie Moore-Black, RN Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Return to McAllen: A Father-Son Interview
By IAN ROBERTSON KIBBE
You are going to hear a little more about McAllen, TX on THCB Shortly. And before we dive into what’s happened there lately, I thought those of you who weren’t here back in the day might want to read an article on THCB from July 2009. Where then THCB editor Ian Kibbe interviewed his dad David Kibbe about what he was doing as a primary care doc in McAllen–Matthew Holt
By now, Dr. Atul Gawande’s article on McAllen’s high cost of health care has been widely read. The article spawned a number of responses and catalyzed a national discussion on cost controls and t...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Uncategorized David Kibbe Ian Robertson Kibbe McAllen Physicians TX Source Type: blogs
AMA Touts Apples ‐to‐Oranges Study in its Fight to Preserve the Medical Cartel
This study supports the evidence that use of NPs can improve access to primary care with similar quality and cost of care.The VHA emergency medicine study that the AMA is touting makes no case against NPs and FNPs independently providing primary care. However, its findings do suggest that hospitals should prefer board ‐certified ENPs to FNPs when staffing their emergency departments with non‐physicians.Spencer Pratt is a Research Associate in the Department of Health Policy Studies (Source: Cato-at-liberty)
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 13, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer, Spencer Pratt Source Type: blogs
Enlightened Cream of Tomato Soup
Warning – The story behind this soup is a long one. A melodrama in three acts as it were.
Act I
It all started with a chicken that I purchased some weeks ago, in order to get a single chicken liver to use in a Bolognese ragu. After removing the liver from the little packet stuffed inside the chicken, I put the neck back in the cavity, put the chicken in the freezer and made the Bolognese.
Act II
Two weeks later, I took the chicken out of the freezer, put it in a pot with some veggies and water and cooked it, giving me a meat to make soft tacos for the a couple of dinners and lunches. And also a gorgeous...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - October 30, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Soups cream tomato soup Source Type: blogs
Dr. Topol ’ s comment on LongCOVID and the heart is misleading/lacking context
By ANISH KOKA
It’s been a while but Anish Koka, a one time regular writer on THCB and occasional THCB Gang member, is back publishing up a storm on his Substack channel. You may recall that his political and clinical views don’t always mesh with some of the wooly liberals we feature on THCB (cough, cough, me), but we are delighted to be back publishing some of his pieces–starting with a look at a tweet from one of America’s most prominent cardiologists.–Matthew Holt
Given Twitter’s commitment to the truth in Medicine, I thought I would try to give them a hand by analyzing a semi-vi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 18, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Anish Koka Eric Topol Long Covid Source Type: blogs
Health Equity in the Spotlight at 2022 Esri User Conference
Health Equity is a complex challenge with multiple root causes and contributing factors making it difficult to know where to start. For many government and healthcare organizations, mapping health equity using a Geography Information System (GIS) was the best place to start. By showing health equity issues on a map, several organizations and individuals who presented at the 2022 Esri User Conference were able to spur action and direct resources to the areas that needed it the most.
Incorporating Race into GIS Dashboards
In 2019, the County of Milwaukee became the first jurisdiction in the country to declare racism a public...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 15, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System ArcGIS Carten Lange County of Milwaukee COVID-19 esri Esri User Conference Health Disparities Health Equity Healthcare GIS HealthG Source Type: blogs
Not Securities? Not So Fast: Important Nuances in the Lummis ‐Gillibrand Crypto Bill
Jack SoloweyOn June 7, 2022, senators Cynthia Lummis (R ‑WY) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D‑NY) unveiled their highly anticipated crypto bill. The bipartisanLummis ‐Gillibrand Responsible Financial Innovation Act covers some of the most contested issues in crypto regulation, including taxation, stablecoins, digital asset exchanges, interoperability with the banking system, and compliance with anti ‐money laundering laws and sanctions. Notably, the bill seeks toclarify the extent to which digital assets ought to be regulated as securities by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or commodities by the Commodi...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 10, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jack Solowey Source Type: blogs
Instructions Don ’t Always Help Us To Do Better At A Task
By Emma Young
You might hate following instructions on how to do something, but there’s no avoiding them. Training on everything from how to drive a car to read an X-ray starts with explicit instructions — whether verbal or written, as the authors of a new paper in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance point out. In fact, Luke Rosedahl at UC, Santa Barbara and colleagues write, “This practice is so widely accepted that scholarship primarily focuses on how to provide instructions, not whether these instructions help or not.” Now the team reports that for learning how to do well...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - December 1, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cognition Decision making Source Type: blogs
Cato Does Really Well in an Unusual Supreme Court Term
Ilya ShapiroThis week marked the end of what was supposed to be a new, 6 –3 conservative Supreme Court. Despite the last day’s high‐profile cases that broke down on such “partisan” lines—to my mind correctly resolving issues ofelection regulation anddonor disclosure—the term was marked largely by bothsurprising unanimity andnever ‐before‐seen splits. There just turned out not to be too many ideological ‐looking decisions this term, though of course that’s partly because the more pragmatic justices worked hard to forge grand compromises.More savvy observers are calling it the...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 2, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Ilya Shapiro Source Type: blogs
Your Reputation Has Folowed You
Your ReputationHas Followed You Farmer Hugh was lounging around the potbelly stove in the general store when one of his workers burst in the door, more animated than the farmer had ever seen him. “Mr. Hugh,” he said excitedly, “Mr. Carpenter’s son has just been caught stealing your oranges, right off the tree in broad daylight.”“What?” demanded farmer Hugh, growing quickly angry. “This time he’s going to jail, since he has a reputation for stealing people’s crops.”“Speaking of the devil,” said Mr. Steele, the store proprietor, “here he comes now.” Everyone looked as the young man en...
Source: The Virtual Salt - January 20, 2021 Category: Neurology Authors: Robert Harris Source Type: blogs
