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Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 117
This study looked at adding the high frequency linear transducer after failure to identify IUP with the standard transducer. Of 81 initial scans, 27 patients did not have an IUP visualized with the curvilinear probe. Of those, 9 (33%) were found to have an IUP by using the linear probe. (It seems like it is helpful if you can see a probable gestational sac, but can’t identify a fetal pole or yolk sac). Recommended by: Justin Morgenstern Pediatrics Padua AP et al. Isotonic versus hypotonic saline solution for maintenance intravenous fluid therapy in children: a systematic review. Pediatr Nephrol. 2015; 30(7): 1163-7...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 13, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Nudrat Rashid Tags: Disaster Education Emergency Medicine Emergency Medicine Update Pediatrics Pre-hospital / Retrieval Radiology Trauma critical care examination Intensive Care R&R in the FASTLANE recommendations research and reviews Resuscitatio Source Type: blogs

Reports of therapeutic hypothermia’s death are greatly exaggerated
I expect you’re completely #FOAMed out by the post-publication frenzy stirred up by the TTM Trial. If not, you’ve come to the right place! Mike collated the explosion of initial FOAM responses in All in a lather over TTM and there have since been notable additions such as Scott Aberegg’s Chill Out: Homeopathic Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest… and ICN’s interview with TTM investigators Niklas Nielsen and Anders Aneman one week after TTM. Soon after, Charles Bruen came with his fascinating blogpost/podcast putting the latest studies in historical perspective: Therapeutic hypothermia: The h...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 1, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Emergency Medicine Evidence Based Medicine Featured Health Intensive Care Resuscitation Bernard critical appraisal HACA Nielsen Targeted Temperature Management Therapeutic Hypothermia TTM Source Type: blogs

Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On Digital Health And Related Privacy, Safety, Social Media And Security Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - August 23, 2022.
-----This weekly blog is to explore the news around the larger issues around Digital Health, data security, data privacy, AI / ML. technology, social media and related matters.I will also try to highlightADHA Propagandawhen I come upon it.Just so we keep count, the latest Notes from the ADHA Board were dated 6 December, 2018 and we have seen none since! It ’s pretty sad!Note: Appearance here is not to suggest I see any credibility or value in what follows. I will leave it to the reader to decide what is worthwhile and what is not! The point is to let people know what is being said / published that I have come upon.-----h...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 23, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

A History of General Refrigeration
Ancient societies figured out that hypothermia was useful for hemorrhage control, but it was Hippocrates who realized that body heat could be a diagnostic tool. He caked his patients in mud, deducing that warmer areas dried first.   Typhoid fever, the plague of Athens in 400 BC and the demise of the Jamestown Colony in the early 1600s, led Robert Boyle to attempt to cure it around 1650 by dunking patients in ice-cold brine. This is likely the first application of therapeutic hypothermia, but it failed to lower the 30 to 40 percent mortality rate. One hundred years later, James Currie tried to treat fevers by applying hot,...
Source: Spontaneous Circulation - March 31, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs

The Joy and Challenge of Simple Medicine in India
​BY KATE BANKS, MDThe Himalayan Health Exchange (HHE) is an organization that assembles volunteers and health care providers from all over the world to deliver care in underserved areas in northern India. I had the amazing opportunity in my second year of residency to spend a month delivering medical care with HHE in the beautiful inner Himalayan mountains. The month was full of exploring, trekking, camping, learning, doctoring, and personal and professional growth.The clinics were scattered throughout different areas in the state of Himachal Pradesh. Our convoy of interpreters, cooks, volunteers, and health care profess...
Source: Going Global - December 12, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs

NIH and Other Public Private Partnerships to Research Treatments for Multiple Diseases
Over the past few weeks, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has made a number of important announcements regarding collaborations with industry as well as the funding of several new research initiatives. Below is a summary of these stories. NIH Partners With Eli Lilly and Others on Rare Diseases FierceBiotechResearch reported that NIH selected four (4) new preclinical drug development studies to uncover new therapies for rare diseases. The projects will be funded through the Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Diseases (TRND) program under NIH's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NCATS, which ...
Source: Policy and Medicine - October 4, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs

Healthcare Update Sattelite Edition – 09-18-2013
Copeptin levels may revolutionize chest pain evaluations in the ED. When standard treatment was compared with early discharge after normal copeptin levels were obtained, there was no significant difference in major adverse cardiac events at 30 days. Need to review the study data, but this is a promising new test. Marco Rubio calls federal government’s $8.7 million advertising campaign for Obamacare a “blatant misuse of federal dollars.” International Longshore and Warehouse Union dumps affiliation with the AFL-CIO, citing support of Obamacare and immigration reform as two reasons for the disaffiilation. Good thing to...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - September 18, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Healthcare Update Source Type: blogs

Can Health Sensors Help Prevent A Coronavirus Infection?
It has almost become a meme to state that your smartphone is more powerful than the computer aboard Apollo 11 that helped men land on the Moon. In fact, your phone probably boasts over 100,000 times the processing power of that computer. Now, even laptop chargers claim to be more powerful than Apollo 11’s computer… The computer in your pocket or on your wall socket will not land you on the Moon any time soon, but these comparisons do help put technological progress into perspective. Considering that an Apple Watch can detect life-threatening conditions like atrial fibrillation, while a Fitbit could detect a woma...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 16, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers digital health sensors coronavirus covid covid19 Source Type: blogs