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Dramatic neuromuscular paralysis following occult snakebites: An awareness for the primary care physician
We report a series of three cases in which young males presented with dramatic neuromuscular paralysis and were likely suffering from elapid snake bites. Each of these patients presented an intriguing clinical challenge and had different in-hospital outcomes. Primary care physicians in the emergency department are usually the first respondents to such patients. Owing to a lack of snake bite history and unavailability of specific diagnostic tests, severe envenomation presents a challenge for physicians, unless they are aware of it and a high level of suspicion is maintained.PMID:35309641 | PMC:PMC8930138 | DOI:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1652_21
Source: Primary Care - March 21, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Vishal Mehta Ritesh Kumar Rathod Prabhakar Chandra B Sharma Aneesha Thomas Source Type: research
Mantoux test defaulters in rural population attending tertiary care hospital in a tuberculosis endemic area
CONCLUSION: Dropout rate in Mantoux testing can be reduced by patient counseling regarding TB and Mantoux test by the doctor.PMID:35360823 | PMC:PMC8963634 | DOI:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1355_21
Source: Primary Care - April 1, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Sameer Singh Faujdar Uday Singh Satish Kumar Priya Mehrishi Amisha Sharma Aayushi Dutta Source Type: research
UNISON ’s biggest ever homecare legal case over workers paid as little as £3.27 an hour
Seventeen home care workers employed across the London Borough of Haringey – backed by their union UNISON – are taking care company Sevacare and the council to court in a dispute involving illegal wages over the widespread non-payment of the minimum wage.
The group – all but one of whom are women – are employed on controversial zero-hours contracts and care for elderly and disabled residents across the borough. The women visit people in their own homes and in some cases provide 24-hour live-in care.
The UNISON case – the biggest the union has ever taken involving home care workers – is against Sevacare, which u...
Source: UNISON Health care news - September 14, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: Charlotte Jeffs Tags: News Press release dave prentis ethical care charter homecare homecare workers social care Source Type: news
Technology and Advanced, Team-based Primary Care – #HITsm Chat Topic
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 7/8 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Christopher Crow, MD (@catalysthg) on the topic “Technology and Advanced, Team-based Primary Care.”
Primary care providers face a unique dichotomy: Never have they been more valuable… and never has their future been more uncertain. Whether you look at the findings from organizations like NASEM–which characterize primary care as the only part of healthcare where an increased supply is associated with better population health and more equitable outcomes...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 5, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: #HITsm Administration Healthcare IT Revenue Cycle Management #HITsm Chat #HITsm Topics Christopher Crow Healthcare Transformation NASEM Primary Care Primary Care Physicians technology Source Type: blogs
Ignoring the social care crisis will worsen the broken system, says UNISON
Commenting on the report by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (Adass) that calls on the government to reform the system of care and support in England, UNISON head of social care Gavin Edwards said:
“Ministers are choosing to ignore the social care crisis. Deep-rooted staffing problems will only begin to be resolved by addressing endemic low pay in the sector.
“A national care service with better pay and conditions would end the profiteering in care and turn around this broken system.”
Notes to editors:
-UNISON is the UK’s largest union with more than 1.3 million members provi...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - April 26, 2023 Category: Food Science Authors: Fatima Ayad Tags: News Press release Gavin Edwards social care Source Type: news
The 2014 FIFA World Cup: Communicable disease risks and advice for visitors to Brazil – A review from the Latin American Society for Travel Medicine (SLAMVI)
Summary: The next FIFA World Cup will be held in Brazil in June–July 2014. Around 600,000 international visitors and participants (as well over 3 million domestic travelers) are expected. This event will take place in twelve cities. This event poses specific challenges, given its size and the diversity of attendees, including the potential for the transmission of imported or endemic communicable diseases, especially those that have an increased transmission rate as a result of close human proximity, eg, seasonal influenza, measles but also tropical endemic diseases. In anticipation of increased travel, a panel of experts...
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - May 12, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Viviana Gallego, Griselda Berberian, Susana Lloveras, Sergio Verbanaz, Tania S.S. Chaves, Tomas Orduna, Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales Tags: Reviews Source Type: research
Melioidosis: evolving concepts in epidemiology, pathogenesis, and treatment.
Abstract
Infection with Burkholderia pseudomallei can result in asymptomatic seroconversion, a single skin lesion that may or may not heal spontaneously, a pneumonia which can be subacute or chronic and mimic tuberculosis or rapidly progressive resulting in fatal overwhelming sepsis. Latency with subsequent activation of disease is well recognized, but very uncommon. Melioidosis also has a myriad of other clinical presentations and diagnosis is often delayed because of this and because of difficulties with laboratory diagnosis and lack of recognition outside melioidosis-endemic regions. The perception of B. pseudo...
Source: Respiratory Care - February 1, 2015 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Currie BJ Tags: Semin Respir Crit Care Med Source Type: research
Expert consensus on the rehabilitation framework guiding a model of care for people living with HIV in a South African setting
Disabilities and treatments related to HIV are a focus for rehabilitation professionals in HIV-endemic countries, yet these countries lack guidance to integrate rehabilitation into a model of care for people living with HIV. We asked HIV and rehabilitation experts in South Africa to engage in a modified Delphi survey based on findings from (a) an enquiry into stakeholder perspectives of a context-specific rehabilitation framework at a semi-rural setting and (b) an analysis of international models of care-guiding rehabilitation.
Source: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care - October 28, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Verusia Chetty, Jill Hanass-Hancock, Hellen Myezwa Source Type: research
Precision Medicine and the Reinvention of Human Disease (Book Index)
In January, 2018, Academic Press published my bookPrecision Medicine and the Reinvention of Human Disease. This book has an excellent " look inside " at itsGoogle book site, which includes the Table of Contents. In addition, I thought it might be helpful to see the topics listed in the Book ' s index. Note that page numbers followed by f indicate figures, t indicate tables, and ge indicate glossary terms.AAbandonware, 270, 310geAb initio, 34, 48ge, 108geABL (abelson leukemia) gene, 28, 58ge, 95 –97Absidia corymbifera, 218Acanthameoba, 213Acanthosis nigricans, 144geAchondroplasia, 74, 143ge, 354geAcne, 54ge, 198, 220geAcq...
Source: Specified Life - January 23, 2018 Category: Information Technology Tags: index jules berman jules j berman precision medicine Source Type: blogs
Pulmonary Coccidioidomycosis.
Abstract
Coccidioidomycosis is an infection caused by the geographically restricted dimorphic fungus, Coccidioides. Coccidioidomycosis occurs endemically in the southwestern and western United States, mainly in focused regions of Arizona and California where the incidence is highest, and in Central and South America. Patients with impaired immunity, especially those with impaired cellular immunity, are at higher risk of severe and disseminated disease. In this review, we describe the fungal ecology and mycology, epidemiology, pathophysiology, and normal immune defenses to Coccidioides as well as address current co...
Source: Respiratory Care - January 31, 2020 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Kimes KE, Kasule SN, Blair JE Tags: Semin Respir Crit Care Med Source Type: research
Personalized medicine for asthma in tropical regions
Purpose of review
Precision medicine could help to improve diagnosis and treatment of asthma; however, in the tropics there are special conditions to be considered for applying this strategy. In this review, we analyze recent advances of precision allergology in tropical regions, highlighting its limitations and needs in high-admixed populations living under environments with high exposure to house dust mites and helminth infections.
Recent findings
Advances have been made regarding the genetic characterization of the great diversity of populations living in the tropics. Genes involved in shared biological pathways be...
Source: Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology - May 1, 2020 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: PERSONALIZED MEDICINE: Edited by Henry Milgrom and René Maximiliano Gómez Source Type: research
Immunizing in a Global Society: Vaccines for Travelers.
Abstract
The risk of travel-related illnesses that require vaccines varies depending on destination and traveler characteristics. Travelers who are not immune and going to countries and regions with endemic diseases are at risk of contracting vaccine-preventable diseases; they can serve as conduits of the disease on return to their home country. Individual travelers can work with a health care professional to assess travel risk based on diseases endemic to the region, time of year of travel, and presence of acute outbreaks. Travelers should discuss personal medical history, immunization status, purpose of trip, an...
Source: Primary Care - July 29, 2020 Category: Primary Care Authors: Otubu O, Mishori R Tags: Prim Care Source Type: research
Self-isolating and sick care staff need proper pay, says UNISON
Responding today (Friday) to the Department of Health and Social Care’s adult social care winter plan, UNISON assistant general secretary Christina McAnea said:
“Care workers who self-isolate or take time off ill need reassurances they’ll get full sick pay. Shameful employment practices and low wages are endemic in the sector. These issues need tackling properly once and for all.
“Making safety kit free for all employers should mean there’s no repeat of the fiasco earlier this year. But the sourcing and distribution of personal protective equipment must be managed centrally for it to work.
“The health s...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - September 18, 2020 Category: Food Science Authors: Sophie Goodchild Tags: News Press release adult social care Source Type: news
Tick-borne encephalitis: A disease neglected by travel medicine
Summary: Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is a vector-borne disease that is primarily transmitted to humans by infected ticks and causes infection of the central nervous system. Clinical presentations range from meningitis to encephalitis with or without myelitis, and infection may result in death or long-term neurological sequelae. TBE is endemic in regions of at least 27 European as well as in some Asian countries. Infection and disease, however, can be averted successfully by tick-bite prevention and active vaccination. The risk of infection has shifted from daily life and occupational exposure to leisure-time activities, ...
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - August 2, 2013 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Martin Haditsch, Ursula Kunze Tags: Controversial commentaries Source Type: research
