Illicit drugs in the emergency department: can we determine on clinical grounds if patients are intoxicated? Results from the Western Australian Illicit Substance Evaluation (WISE) study - McCutcheon D, Soderstrom J, Raghavan M, Oosthuizen F, Douglas B, Burrows S, Smith JL, Fatovich D.
Introduction Presentations related to illicit drugs are a feature of emergency department practice. Clinicians may form a belief that a patient is intoxicated with illicit drugs based on patient self-report, clinical features on presentation and the local ...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Bursting of the upper jaw prosthesis and fractures of the lower jaw as indirect injury pattern caused by a headshot: a case report - Weber A, W öss C, Kneubuehl BP, Rabl W.
Gunshots to the human body can cause direct and indirect injuries. Direct injuries are a consequence of the projectile guiding its way through the body, creating a permanent wound channel and thereby damaging the penetrated as well as the adjacent tissue. ...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Case report about an inpatient suicide by asphyxia without strangulation - Silge AK, B öcker FM.
A risk of suicide in the course of a psychiatric disorder will often be answered with an admission for inpatient psychiatric treatment, resulting in a high potential of suicidal behavior on the ward. Despite extensive safety precautions and therapeutic int...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Decapitation of an agricultural worker by a combine harvester: a case report - Mezzetti E, Spina F, Volonnino G, Santoro P, Manetti AC, Del Duca F.
BACKGROUND: Each year, there are billions of agricultural work accidents involving the operation of tractors, grain augers, harvest combines, power take-off devices, or balers and thrashers. Field accidents of this nature seem more common on afternoons, ju...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Justice-involved, sexually victimized women's perspectives on the acceptability of receiving trauma-focused therapy in prison - Fradley MF, Kathryn Allison M, Steely Smith MK, Bossard MS, Zielinski MJ.
Incarcerated women report high rates of sexual victimization. Interviews with 63 previously incarcerated women survivors of sexual violence explored perceptions toward receiving trauma-focused therapy while incarcerated and postrelease trauma-focused thera...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Kounis syndrome after anti-snake venom intradermal skin test: a case report - Elgendy MM, Madkour SAG, El-Moneim Sheta AA, Hamouda EH, Ghitani SA.
Snake bites are a concerning health problem in Egypt and other tropical countries that are effectively managed with anti-snake venom (ASV). ASV has common reactive complications that are usually mild. Rarely, anaphylaxis and severe systemic reactions may o...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

State challenges to improving traffic safety coordination - National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, USA, Burdett BA.
This report is prepared in response to a requirement in House Report 117-99 (p. 61) that accompanies the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 (Public Law 117-103), requesting information on what challenges States are facing with improving their traffic sa...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Uncapped metered-dose inhalers: a risk for foreign body aspiration. a case report and review of the literature - Sch ürmann D, Saccomanno J, Temmesfeld-Wollbrück B, Witzenrath M, Hübner RH.
We report a case in which a plastic cable clip accidentally lodged in the mouthpiece of an uncapped pressurized MDI was aspirated during i...
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Global polio eradication effort struggles with the end game
In 1988, a collection of health and nonprofit organizations launched a vaccination program to eradicate polio, and the World Health Organization resolved to accomplish this lofty goal by 2000. More than 20 years later, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) has yet to cross the finish line. A new, sharply critical report issued on 8 September by an independent monitoring board says GPEI is likely to miss yet more deadlines, and faults it for long embracing “a highly positive public ‘almost there’ narrative that was close to magical thinking.” Through massive vaccination ...
Source: ScienceNOW - September 18, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

Some Politicians Want to Research Geoengineering as a Climate Solution. Scientists Are Worried
Stratospheric aerosol injection, the idea of spraying sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere to cool the planet, is one of the most controversial topics in climate science, with scientists engaged in a fierce, yearslong debate over whether even researching such techniques poses unacceptable risks. To some people outside of that community, though, it no longer matters much what the academics think. “Can we just disagree and move on?” Andrew Song, the co-founder of controversial geoengineering startup Make Sunsets, said in February, as he and his business partner Luke Iseman drove to the Reno, Nev., site of the...
Source: TIME: Science - September 18, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Alejandro de la Garza and Justin Worland Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

AAP Issues Low-Carb Diet Recommendations for Pediatric Diabetes
MONDAY, Sept. 18, 2023 -- In a clinical report issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics and published online Sept. 18 in Pediatrics, recommendations are presented for use of low-carbohydrate diets in children with type 1 diabetes, prediabetes,...
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - September 18, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

AI Tool May Aid Remote Assessment of Parkinson Symptom Severity
MONDAY, Sept. 18, 2023 -- An artificial intelligence tool can help remotely assess the severity of Parkinson disease symptoms, according to a study published online Aug. 23 in npj Digital Medicine. Saiful Islam, from the University of Rochester in...
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - September 18, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Turn off the TV! Too much screen time for infants can hinder development
Parents are warned about the dangers of too much screen time for their infants after Japanese report warns it affects their development.
Source: Daily Express - Health - September 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Here Are This Year's Top Schools for an Undergraduate Nursing Degree
(MedPage Today) -- For those looking to pursue a bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) degree, Duke University and the University of Pennsylvania were tied as the top places to do so, according to U.S. News & World Report. The University of...
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - September 18, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Generative AI, Remote Patient Monitoring Among Biggest Q2 Trends In Health IT Fundraising
Venture capital funding for healthcare IT companies — those selling enterprise software to providers and payers — is slowly picking back up after its low point in the fourth quarter of 2022, according to a new report from Pitchbook. Healthcare IT companies’ venture fundraising total was $1 billion…#venture #healthcare #kaufmanhalls #hippocraticais #hyro #mercyhealth #novanthealth #cms #healthsnap #optimizehealth
Source: Reuters: Health - September 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

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