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The Future of Emergency Medicine: Innovations Making Patients The Point-of-Care
Every minute spent without treatment could reduce the chance of survival in case of medical emergency and trauma patients. Digital health innovations making patients the point-of-care could become a great help for first responders and emergency units in the battle against time. Here, we collected what trends and technologies will have an impact on the future of emergency medicine.
Six minutes before brain damage
Car crashes, home injuries, fires, natural disasters. The difference between life and death often depends on the speed and efficiency of emergency care services. The work of doctors, paramedics, and nurses being in...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 28, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: imported CPR digital health emergency emergency medicine EMS first aid first response future Health 2.0 Healthcare Innovation technology Source Type: blogs
The Future of Emergency Medicine: 6 Technologies That Make Patients The Point-of-Care
Car crashes, home injuries, fires, natural disasters: every minute – if not every second – spent without treatment in such cases of medical emergencies and high-risk patients could reduce the chance of survival or proper recovery. In fact, when deprived of oxygen, permanent brain damage begins after only 4 minutes, while death can occur as soon as 4-6 minutes later. In this race against time, digital health technologies that turn patients into the point-of-care could prove to be game-changers for first responders and emergency units.
From driverless cars through medical drones to artificial intelligence (...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 29, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Portable Medical Diagnostics Robotics Telemedicine & Smartphones digital health Health 2.0 Innovation technology emergency emergency medicin Source Type: blogs
Safe Consumption Sites Reduce The Stress on Hospitals and Emergency Departments
Jeffrey A. SingerI wrote previously about a secret safe consumption site that has been providing services in an undisclosed location since 2014. The harm reduction organization operating it has agreed to share its data with researchers providing the researchers keep the name and location of the site confidential. This is because the federal “Crack House Statute” makes safe consumption sites illegal in the U.S.The researchers published theirfirst report in 2017. They reported that in the site ’s first 2 years of operation there were 2,574 injections among more than 100 participants, most of whom were injecti...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 15, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 197
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Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 197. The week have a first-aid feel to the questions.
Question 1
What organisation celebrates 140 years, 70 years before the NHS?
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 14, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five cafe coronary claude beck dangerous animal defibrillation Heimlich Heimlich manoeuvre horse ironman madonna buder St John's Ambulance Source Type: blogs
Advanced Cooling Therapy Releases New Temperature Modulation Device
Advanced Cooling Therapy (ACT), a medical device firm, has expanded personnel in its commercial launch of the Esophageal Cooling Device (ECD).
“The ECD is the first device on the market cleared for temperature modulation via the esophagus. This enables efficient core-cooling, or core-warming, without the complexity and risks associated with intravascular catheter placement, and without the obstruction of patient access seen with surface pads and wraps,” said Robin Drassler, the vice president of North American sales.
The device is placed like a standard gastric tube, making placement quick. Placement ...
Source: Technology & Inventions - November 20, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Mastering Intensive Care 028 with John Santamaria
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John Santamaria – Genuine care for patients both during and after the ICU stay
How well do you understand what happens to your patients after they leave the ICU?
Do you find out how they go and feed this back to your ICU team?
Most of you give excellent care to your patients whilst they are in the intensive care unit. No doubt this will be compassionate, appropriate, diligent, information-driven, holistic, team-based and communicative care.
But when they leave the ICU, ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 31, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Andrew Davies Tags: Intensive Care Mastering Intensive Care Andrew Davies ex-ICU genuine care John Santamaria 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
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 212
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Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 212 – a “where in the world” edition from Dr Mark Corden – paediatric fellow in Melbourne.
Question 1
Where in the world was insulin discovered?
www.diabetes.co.uk
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 3, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five appendicectomy artificial ear bionic ear claudius aymand cochlear implant frederick banting Graeme Clark hyperbilirubinaemia insulin Leonid Rogozov mestivier phototherapy pierre eymard Sister J Ward sodi Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – November 20, 2022 – 90% of healthcare buyers prioritize virtual care but want a clear roadmap, wearable data helped predict COVID-19 infections 12 days before the CDC, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
News and Studies
A joint study by Omada Health, Rock Health, and the Digital Medicine Society, based on a survey of employers, payers and benefit consultants, found that 90% of purchasers view virtual care as a high priority, an...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 20, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Abbott Artera Ascension Avel eCare Axuall Biotech Breakthrough Awards Caption Health CareCloud CareEvolution CDC CelerisTx Cerner Change Healthcare Connect America Digital Medicine Society Elation Health Emp Source Type: blogs
Jellybean 067 with Dr Hanna Kaade from Aleppo
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Under Siege. Under fire. Undergraduate. The remarkable journey of Dr Hanna Kaade; from Aleppo to Berlin and from the Red Crescent to #dasSMACC.
This is an ordinary tale. An accidental tale of everyday heroism. There are many tales like this. Every one worth telling, worth hearing, worth learning from.
Hanna Kaade is a Syrian born and trained doctor. He completed his medical training in a town under siege, in a hospital under fire, in the centre of a civil war at the cent...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 14, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Doug Lynch Tags: JellyBean Aleppo dasSMACC Hanna Kaade Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 219
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Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 219, Christmas Edition.
Question 1
On average, how many calories will the British consume on Christmas day?
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 21, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five babies born on christmas day calories christmas lunch christmas tree dermatitis colophonium dermatitis contact dermatitis father christmas graham speed of father christmas Source Type: blogs
Top Online ECG Courses
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Difficult to master (and even harder to teach), the area of ECG interpretation has spawned an entire learning industry devoted to the topic. We take a Google deep dive to evaluate you 17 of the the best #FOAMed and paid ECG courses available online.
ECG Course selection criteria
Inclusion criteria: The ECG course had to be
in the English language
readily accessible online, without requiring a formal application process
found within the first 50 organic Google search res...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 3, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Connelly Tags: ECG Education Review Website ECG Academy ECG Course ECG Course online EKG medmastery Medvarsity Top 10 Source Type: blogs
Drum roll please … presenting this year ’ s winners of our F1000Prime Awards
Throughout the year our Faculty works tirelessly to ensure we never miss a notable article to help us stay on top of the literature. Therefore, each year it’s fitting that we recognise their valuable work by way of two types of award, namely our AFM Travel Grant Awards and Faculty Member of the Year Awards.
Whist, of course, we are grateful for all of the contributions each and every member of the F1000Prime Faculty makes, these awards acknowledge those who have made extraordinary contributions and whose recommendations have proved particularly popular and engaging throughout the year.
Thank you very much to our entire F...
Source: Naturally Selected - March 1, 2019 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Steven Lokwan Tags: F1000 Institutions Researchers Source Type: blogs
Follow-up on my Eight COVID Assertions
Yesterday’s post generated some good comments.
Two emergency medicine specialists felt that I was both wrong and insulting in saying that hospitals were not overwhelmed.
As a doc in NYC, I would suggest that your assertion 3 was indeed quite wrong and will be wrong in many more places before we are done— Josh Socolow (@Docjoshsoc) December 13, 2020
Jfc you weren't in Connecticut in April, and you aren't here now.We weren't (and aren't) fatally overwhelmed because of massive & costly efforts by our system. Anything less would have been catastrophic.Your blithe dismissal is kind ...
Source: Dr John M - December 13, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr John Source Type: blogs
