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Oral manifestations, risk factors and management strategies of COVID-19 associated mucormycosis in tertiary care hospital
Conclusions: Mucormycosis can cause serious oro-facial morbidity and mortality in COVID-19 patients. The current management strategy requires early diagnosis, prompt treatment and oral rehabilitation.
Source: Indian Journal of Dental Research - September 22, 2023 Category: Dentistry Authors: Pankaj Goel Jitendra Kumar Anshul Rai Prateek Shakti Gunjan Chouksey Source Type: research
“It saved me from the emergency department”: A qualitative study of patient experience of virtual urgent care in Ontario
ConclusionVirtual care options are valued by patients and families; however, the nature of care needed by those accessing VUC and who can best provide that care needs to be evaluated to position it for sustainability. Understanding how virtual care performs from both a provider and patient perspective during the current crisis has implications for designing alternative care options beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
Source: PLoS One - September 22, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Katie N. Dainty Source Type: research
Healthcare IT Regulations – What Needs to Be Added and What Needs to Be Removed
There are a lot of rules and regulations in place in the world of healthcare. These are put into place in order to protect patients and organizations. However, the world of healthcare is constantly changing and evolving as we come up with new ideas and solutions. Have the regulations done the same though? Or are there areas that are missing regulations? Or are there areas in healthcare where past regulations are now too restrictive and are holding us back?
In search of answers to these questions, we reached out to our incredibly beautiful Healthcare IT Today Community to see what areas they would add, remove, or update re...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 19, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Administration Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Regulations 1upHealth 4medica Amanda Heidemann Andrea Mazzoccoli Andrew Norden MD Bill Charnetski Cheryl Cheng Commur Source Type: blogs
The influence of explainable vs non-explainable clinical decision support systems on rapid triage decisions: a mixed methods study
CONCLUSIONS: Although overall trust in the models was low, the median (IQR) weight-on-advice was high (0.33 (0.0-0.56)) and in line with published literature on expert advice. In contrast to the hypothesis, weight-on-advice was comparable between the explaining and non-explaining systems. In 30% of cases, weight-on-advice was 0, meaning the physician did not change their rating. The median of the remaining weight-on-advice values was 50%, suggesting that physicians either dismissed the recommendation or employed a "meeting halfway" approach. Newer technologies, such as clinical reasoning systems, may be able to augment the...
Source: Pain Physician - September 19, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Daniel Laxar Magdalena Eitenberger Mathias Maleczek Alexandra Kaider Fabian Peter Hammerle Oliver Kimberger Source Type: research
The effect of COVID-19 pandemic on perioperative factors: data from the Swedish Perioperative Register
ConclusionsThe COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on perioperative care in Sweden. During the first wave of the pandemic, the number of surgical interventions decreased, but the number of acute surgeries remained stable compared with pre-pandemic numbers. Perioperative organizations have had and will continue to have challenges handling the increased number of patients needing perioperative care.
Source: Perioperative Medicine - September 16, 2023 Category: Surgery Source Type: research
Transient Adrenal Insufficiency Following Pfizer/BioNTech Coronavirus Disease-2019 Vaccine Overdose
The COVID-19 pandemic has already caused more than 6.5 million deaths worldwide.1 Although vaccines have been instrumental in controlling the pandemic, they have many adverse effects. The most common adverse effects include pain at the injection site, fatigue, headache, myalgia, arthralgia, pyrexia, and nausea.2,3 Because of the massive scale of vaccinations, there has been an increase in the number of adverse effects, some of which have been due to incorrect application of the vaccine.
Source: Journal of Emergency Nursing: JEN - September 16, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Erhan Altunbas, Emir Unal, Ozge Onur, Dilek Yagci Caglayik Tags: Case Review Source Type: research
Number of patients with interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome seen before versus during the COVID ‐19 pandemic at an academic, urban, multisite urogynecology practice
ConclusionsAlthough more patients were diagnosed with IC/BPS during versus before the pandemic, the difference in diagnosis rates was not different between these periods.
Source: LUTS: Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms - September 13, 2023 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Tahireh Markert,
Alexa Courtepatte,
Subrina Farah,
Jeannine M. Miranne Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Fresh Air
Spring was upon us. Parts of the country were coming out of a freeze the likes of which many had never experienced before. Recovery from the kind of cold that made one's face hurt simply by thinking about being outside was underway. The kind of cold that caused people in the Midwest to blast their heating units just to keep their pipes from bursting. It reached a point where entire states nearly ran out of usable energy. As if staying home for nearly a year due to a global pandemic wasn't taking enough of a toll, new thoughts of life without electricity for days, weeks, or even longer forced their way into peoples ’ minds.
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - September 13, 2023 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Benjamin M Skoch Source Type: research
Why It Takes Forever to Get a Doctor ’ s Appointment
Recently I faced consoling a patient of mine who couldn’t understand why I was unable to “hop on the phone” to discuss her new back pain. When she finally got an appointment with me weeks later, I decided to be honest. I shared that I had 1,300 patients who call me their primary doctor. After I’m done seeing patients at 5 PM, I tend to 50 to 100 messages and notifications. I take three to four hours of work home with me every night.
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I didn’t share these stats to elicit sympathy, but soon our roles had reversed. My patient overflowed with apologi...
Source: TIME: Health - September 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ilana Yurkiewicz Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
Medicine – The Grey Bridge between Life and Death
As I put my white coat on and started reviewing charts, dozens of patients were dying at my Hospital in Queens. New York City was a Pandemic Epicenter, and the speakers kept frankly announcing “Rapid Response Team” and “Code Blue” calls about 30 times per 12-hour shift, sometimes with 3 Cardiorespiratory arrests happening simultaneously on different floors. Overworked providers desperately tried to save patients as Covid-19 killed New Yorkers from all ages and ethnicities. Refrige rated trucks were parked by the Hospital, keeping the bodies cold as our morgue struggled to handle the intake of the dead.
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - September 12, 2023 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Fernando Kawai Tags: Humanities: Art, Language, and Spirituality in Health Care Source Type: research
Psychological distress and musculoskeletal pain in manual therapists during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden: a cross-sectional study
ConclusionsDuring the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden, manual therapists primarily suffered from musculoskeletal pain related to the back and shoulders, while depressive symptoms were the most common symptom of psychological distress. Owners of businesses that suffered economic consequences had a higher prevalence of high psychological distress, which may call for targeted support of this group in future similar contexts. Future longitudinal studies during the pandemic are warranted to assess these associations further.
Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies - September 12, 2023 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
An analysis of pain intensity, injury incidence, and their associations with socio-demographic factors in high school athletes: a cross-sectional study during the COVID-19 pandemic - Amarttayakong L, Ruengyangmee S, Nualkim W, Meelam P, Rodchan N, Amarttayakong P, Narom N, Sudchoo K, Nulong N, Chaiyamoon A, Sangkhano S.
This cross-sectional study explored the relationship between pain intensity, injury incidence, and sociodemographic factors in 120 high school athletes (mean age 16.78 ±0.91) participating in various sports. The aims of this study are to examine the correl...
Source: SafetyLit - September 11, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on erectile function in Chinese CP/CPPS patients
This study aimed to investigate the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on erectile function in Chinese patients with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS). A retrospective study was conducted on 657 CP/CPPS patients who visited The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University (Changsha, China) from November 2018 to November 2022. Patients were divided into two groups based on the timeline before and after the COVID-19 outbreak in China. The severity of CP/CPPS, penile erection status, anxiety, and depression was evaluated using the National Institutes of Health-Chronic Pro...
Source: Asian Journal of Andrology - September 11, 2023 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Wei-Jie Song Ji-Wei Huang Yuan Liu Wei Ding Zhi Long Le-Ye He Source Type: research
