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Home palliative care professionals perception of challenges during the Covid-19 outbreak: A qualitative study
CONCLUSIONS: The first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic brought many challenges and stressors for home palliative care professionals. On the other side, they reported a satisfaction with their critical role in carrying out their work with patients at risk.PMID:33829909 | DOI:10.1177/02692163211008732
Source: Palliative Medicine - April 8, 2021 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Luca Franchini Silvia Varani Rita Ostan Ilenia Bocchi Raffaella Pannuti Guido Biasco Eduardo Bruera Source Type: research

Ebola And EHRs: An Unfortunate And Critical Reminder
The Dallas hospital communication lapse that led to the discharge of a Liberian man with Ebola symptoms is an example of the failure of the American health care system to effectively share health information, even within single institutions. It is not possible to know whether a faster response would have saved Thomas Eric Duncan’s life or reduced risk to the community and health workers. What is clear is that rapid sharing of information is one of the elements critical to halting the spread of Ebola. Had all members of the initial care team known of the patient’s recent arrival from an Ebola-stricken country and acted ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - October 28, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Lara Cartwright-Smith, Jane Hyatt Thorpe, and Sara Rosenbaum Tags: All Categories Emergency Medicine Global Health Health IT Hospitals Policy Public Health Technology Source Type: blogs

What Experts in Law and Medicine Have to Say About the Cost of Drugs
By ANDY ORAM Pharmaceutical drug costs impinge heavily on consumers’ consciousness, often on a monthly basis, and have become such a stress on the public that they came up repeatedly among both major parties during the U.S. presidential campaign–and remain a bipartisan rallying cry. A good deal of the recent conference named Health Law Year in P/Review, at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, covered issues with a bearing on drug costs. It’s interesting to take the academic expertise from that conference–and combine it with a bit of commo...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 2, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Andy Oram Drug Pricing Pharma Source Type: blogs

‘Snorkel’ lice barrier technology reduced two co-occurring parasites, the salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) and the amoebic gill disease causing agent (Neoparamoeba perurans), in commercial salmon sea-cages
Publication date: Available online 10 March 2017 Source:Preventive Veterinary Medicine Author(s): D.W. Wright, L.H. Stien, T. Dempster, T. Vågseth, V. Nola, J.-E. Fosseidengen, F. Oppedal Diverse chemical-free parasite controls are gaining status in Atlantic salmon sea-cage farming. Yet, the intricacies of their use at commercial scale, including effects on co-occurring parasites, are seldom reported. A new salmon lice prevention method involves installing a deep net roof and ‘snorkel’ lice barrier in cages to shelter salmon from free-living infective larvae which concentrate at shallow depths, and allows salmon to j...
Source: Preventive Veterinary Medicine - March 10, 2017 Category: Veterinary Research Source Type: research

‘Snorkel’ lice barrier technology reduced two co- occurring parasites, the salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) and the amoebic gill disease causing agent (Neoparamoeba perurans), in commercial salmon sea-cages
Publication date: 1 May 2017 Source:Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Volume 140 Author(s): D.W. Wright, L.H. Stien, T. Dempster, T. Vågseth, V. Nola, J.-E. Fosseidengen, F. Oppedal Diverse chemical-free parasite controls are gaining status in Atlantic salmon sea-cage farming. Yet, the intricacies of their use at commercial scale, including effects on co-occurring parasites, are seldom reported. A new salmon lice prevention method involves installing a deep net roof and ‘snorkel’ lice barrier in cages to shelter salmon from free-living infective larvae which concentrate at shallow depths, and allows salmon to jump and ...
Source: Preventive Veterinary Medicine - May 2, 2017 Category: Veterinary Research Source Type: research

A War on Pediatric Care Is Putting Children at Risk
Over the past three years, COVID-19 has directly touched every aspect of our society, including children. Although less severe in children than adults, COVID-19 is now the fifth-leading cause of disease-related death among those under 19 years old. Yet, as the pandemic and its direct effects on children are easing, there are other concerns that the medical community must contend with—a problem, in large part, due to the spillover effects of misinformation and politics on pediatrics. Today we are seeing long-established norms of basic pediatric practice being discredited and ignored, and a concerning rise in vaccine a...
Source: TIME: Health - February 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors:  Dr. Scott A. Rivkees Tags: Uncategorized freelance health Source Type: news

Policy and Medicine: Current Healthcare Landscape and Predictions for 2014
We reported in November that the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) agreed to amend the ABPI Code of Practice for the Pharmaceutical Industry to require increased disclosure of payments within the healthcare community. The ABPI released a statement highlighting the importance of greater transparency in the relationships between the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare professionals. It is likely that other European countries will be looking more closely at how they regulate relationships between the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare professionals. RICO… RICO…RICO In mid-December, the U...
Source: Policy and Medicine - December 31, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs

A virus that melts sea stars
Sea stars are lovely marine invertebrates with a round central body connected to multiple radiating legs (photo credit). In the past year millions of sea stars in the west coast waters of North America have melted into piles of slime and ossicles. Sea star associated densovirus might be the cause of this lethal disease. Sea star wasting disease (SSWD) is characterized by lesions, limb curling and deflation, and death as the animals rapidly degrade or ‘melt’. The current outbreak began in June 2013 and has killed sea stars from Baja California, Mexico, to Southern Alaska. SSWD might be the biggest marine wildlife ep...
Source: virology blog - November 17, 2014 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information densovirus echinoderm marine invertebrate parvovirus Pycnopodia helianthoides sea star starfish viral Source Type: blogs

SP7 What should you anticipate and prepare for during a pandemic - conversion of a paediatric intensive care unit to an adult intensive care unit - a pharmacy perspective
Conclusion Providing an AICU on PICU was one of the biggest challenges ever faced but provided excellent cooperation and collaboration between pharmacy teams. PICU pharmacists have a strong foundation of ICU knowledge to enable them to be redeployed to AICU. Strong clinical and operational leadership is required to navigate uncertain times when staff are working outside their normal practice. Good communication is vital, both upwards, downwards and to the front line to ensure safe ways of working. Resilience planning including staffing, drug and equipment shortages ensured that resources were prioritised. Teamwork with a d...
Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - April 20, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Crook, J., Mehta, R. Tags: Oral presentations Source Type: research

Coronavirus Will Have Long-Lasting Impacts on the U.S. Health Care System —And the Poorest Will Suffer Most
When Dr. Mark Lewis has to tell a cancer patient they’re dying, he tries to do so as compassionately as possible, usually offering a hug or a hand to hold. The thought of doing so by phone, he says, once felt heartbreakingly impersonal. But in the face of the current COVID-19 pandemic, the Salt Lake City-based gastrointestinal oncologist has had to do many things that make his “conscience weigh heavy.” He’s delivered bad news virtually, to limit the possibility of spreading the virus. He’s delayed chemotherapy for patients who—he hopes—can wait, knowing the treatment would wipe out...
Source: TIME: Health - March 26, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Magazine Source Type: news

A new era for nuclear medicine.
Authors: Chatzipavlidou V Abstract The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic is the defining global health crisis of our time. Health care systems globally are amid an unprecedented challenge. Since its emergence in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, the virus has spread to 185 countries worldwide, with more than 2.63 million cases confirmed and more than 183 thousand related deaths (as of 23/04/2020). According to current evidence, the novel coronavirus is transmitted from human-to-human mainly via respiratory droplets of different sizes, contact with bodily fluids, or from contaminated surfaces. In the context of COVID-19, a...
Source: Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine - May 5, 2020 Category: Nuclear Medicine Tags: Hell J Nucl Med Source Type: research

Physician and nurse practitioner roles in emergency, trauma, critical, and intensive care
At present, the United States ’ (US) healthcare system is facing the challenge of a global pandemic which is impacting intensive and critical care capacity around the world and in major municipal areas in the United States. The delivery of emergency, critical and intensive care services requires time-sensitive and life-depende nt coordination and teamwork among all members of the care team (Leggat, 2007). Successful teamwork has long been described as a key component of delivering quality health care (Institute of Medicine, 2001), and has been cited as a significant factor in limiting loss of life in the aftermath of ...
Source: Nursing Outlook - May 19, 2020 Category: Nursing Authors: Karen Donelan, Catherine M. DesRoches, Sophia Guzikowski, Robert S. Dittus, Peter Buerhaus Source Type: research

Clinical Burden of Inpatient Wound Care in Internal Medicine Units During the First Wave of COVID-19 Outbreak
Objective To explore the clinical burden and epidemiologic profile of hospitalized patients with wounds during the first wave of COVID-19. Methods A retrospective and observational study was conducted to analyze the inpatient episodes of wound care in the University Hospital of Salamanca (Spain) during the initial COVID-19 crisis from March 1, 2020, to June 1, 2020. Data were collected from nursing care reports and clinical discharge reports. Included patients were 18 years or older, had a hospital length of stay of 1 day or longer, and were hospitalized in an internal medicine unit. Surgical and traumatic wound...
Source: Advances in Skin and Wound Care - May 19, 2022 Category: Dermatology Tags: ONLINE EXCLUSIVES Source Type: research

Surveillance of Arthropod-Borne Viruses and Their Vectors in the Mediterranean and Black Sea Regions Within the MediLabSecure Network
AbstractPurpose of ReviewArboviruses, viruses transmitted by arthropods such as mosquitoes, ticks, sandflies, and fleas are a significant threat to public health because of their epidemic and zoonotic potential. The geographical distribution of mosquito-borne diseases such as West Nile (WN), Rift Valley fever (RVF), Dengue, Chikungunya, and Zika has expanded over the last decades. Countries of the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions are not spared. Outbreaks of WN are repeatedly reported in the Mediterranean basin. Human cases of RVF were reported at the southern borders of the Maghreb region. For this reason, establishing...
Source: Current Tropical Medicine Reports - March 16, 2017 Category: Tropical Medicine Source Type: research