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Aquadex Ultrafiltration for Critical COVID Patients: Interview with John Erb, CEO at CHF Solutions
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, many healthcare facilities around the world are inundated with critically ill patients, and resources such as equipment and staff are stretched thin. Shortages of critical equipment, such as ventilators, can mean the difference between life and death for patients, and the need to keep critically ill patients comfortable and alive has spurred healthcare staff and medtech companies to innovate and look for alternatives. One example of this involves finding alternatives to dialysis machines. Certain critically ill COVID-19 patients are at risk of acute kidney injury, and dialysis is need...
Source: Medgadget - May 6, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Critical Care Exclusive Source Type: blogs

Expert Tips Revealed: How to Boost Mental Health in Lockdown
You're reading Expert Tips Revealed: How to Boost Mental Health in Lockdown, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. Many of us have our own hacks for managing mental health, but how do they fare in lockdown? In these unprecedented times, we’re all having to adapt to a new way of living, and with that, new ways of managing our wellbeing, too. In these trying times, and with social interaction being largely off limits, it’s important we give our brains that extra bit of love. While experts have been calling...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Nightingale Tags: featured health and fitness productivity tips psychology self-improvement covid_19 quarantine self improvement Source Type: blogs

Wait time between skincare products – is it necessary? episode 219
Welcome to the Beauty Brains, a show where real cosmetic chemists answer your beauty product questions and give you an insider’s look from scientists in the cosmetic industry. On today’s show we’re going to be answering questions about… Is the wait time necessary when you are applying acids? How do you debate product safety with someone? Do skin products with natural moisturizing factor work better? Should you avoid glycerin and dimethicone in hair products? And we’ll cover some beauty science news too. Beauty Science news What’s your stance on wearing masks? Perry on Ecowell podcast J&J lawsuits get ...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - May 4, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs

Monat MLM Beauty Products – Are they remarkable? Episode 218
Welcome to the Beauty Brains, a show where real cosmetic chemists answer your beauty product questions and give you an insider’s look at the cosmetic industry. This is Episode 218. Hosts: Valerie George and Perry Romanowski. On today’s show we’re going to be answering beauty questions about… How do magnetic face masks work? Do Rodan + Field products really live up to their claims? Are Monat’s hair products really that special? Can Monat cleanser remove a marker mark? Beauty Industry news Most popular beauty products during quarantine Recall alert Wyndmere Naturals Recalls Birch Sweet Essential Oil and Ache...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - April 22, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs

Why Maintaining a Schedule During COVID-19 is Important for Your Mental Health
In a time of considerable anxiety and personal disruption, there’s not a lot individuals can do to change elements out of their control. Government mandates to remain in place during the COVID-19 pandemic, for example, are not something to flout, as they’re for public safety and efforts to control the spread of the virus. Yet, stuck at home, unable to go to regular workplace, school, and other places as normal doesn’t mean you should vegetate on the couch. Indeed, maintaining a schedule is important for your mental health. Here’s why. This is one area of your life over which you have some control. An element of cog...
Source: World of Psychology - April 20, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: Habits coronavirus COVID-19 Source Type: blogs

Genetic basis in Brugada Syndrome – Cardiology MCQ – Answer
Genetic basis in Brugada Syndrome – Cardiology MCQ – Answer Genetic basis in Brugada Syndrome has been identified in — percentage of cases currently – Correct answer: a) 30% Though autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance has been noted in Brugada syndrome, pathogenic mutations have not been detected in 70% of the cases [1]. The first mutation to be identified in the syndrome was in the sodium channel gene SCN5A in 1998 [2]. Even today most of the mutations detected in the syndrome are in the same gene (21%). Several other potential genes have been identified (CACNA1C, GPD1L, HEY2, PKP2, RANGR...
Source: Cardiophile MD - April 20, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis Tags: Cardiology MCQ DM / DNB Cardiology Entrance Source Type: blogs

Drug challenge in Brugada syndrome – Cardiology MCQ – Answer
Drug challenge in Brugada syndrome – Cardiology MCQ – Answer Which of the following is not usually used as drug challenge to unmask the Brugada Type I ECG pattern? – Correct answer: d) Propranolol Drug challenge is used when there is clinical suspicion in the form of syncope, agonal respiration and family history, but ECG does not show the classical type I Brugada syndrome ECG. Sodium channel blockers are used to unmask the ECG changes of the disease. Drug challenge should be cautiously done with continuous ECG monitoring and occurrence of QRS widening more than 130% of baseline, frequent ventricular ecto...
Source: Cardiophile MD - April 20, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis Tags: Cardiology Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 20th 2020
In conclusion, elevated brain amyloid was associated with family history and APOE ε4 allele but not with multiple other previously reported risk factors for AD. Elevated amyloid was associated with lower test performance results and increased reports of subtle recent declines in daily cognitive function. These results support the hypothesis that elevated amyloid represents an early stage in the Alzheimer's continuum. Blood Metabolites as a Marker of Frailty https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2020/04/blood-metabolites-as-a-marker-of-frailty/ Frailty in older people is usually diagnosed in a symptomatic...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 19, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Quinidine for Brugada syndrome
Brugada syndrome is an inherited cardiac channelopathy with potential for life threatening ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death [1]. Coved ST segment elevation of 2 mm or more with negative T wave in right precordial leads V1 and V2, either spontaneously or after challenge with sodium channel blocker drug is the characteristic ECG finding. Though implantation of an ICD (implantable cardioverter-defibrillator is the main treatment, quinidine for Brugada syndrome is an option worth it in certain situations [2]. Quinidine is a Class I antiarrhythmic agent which can block Ito and IKr currents. It has been shown to...
Source: Cardiophile MD - April 19, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis Tags: Cardiology Source Type: blogs

Side effects of fludrocortisone – Cardiology MCQ – Answer
Side effects of fludrocortisone – Cardiology MCQ – Answer Side effects of fludrocortisone does not include – Correct answer: d) Postural hypotension Fludrocortisone is an important drug for the treatment of postural hypotension. It is a synthetic steroid with mineralocorticoid activity. It increases sodium reabsorption in the renal tubules. The drug in turn increases potassium excretion and cause hypokalemia. Sodium retention causes volume expansion decreases the chance of postural hypotension. For the same reason it may cause supine hypertension in these patients. Often supine hypertension is an importan...
Source: Cardiophile MD - April 18, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis Tags: Cardiology MCQ DM / DNB Cardiology Entrance Source Type: blogs

Reviewing the Influence of β-hydroxybutyrate on Metabolism and Age-Related Disease
β-hydroxybutyrate is a ketone body that is produced in greater amounts during exercise and calorie restriction. It has a range of beneficial effects that can influence the pace of aging, such as suppressing the pace at which cells become senescent. Senescent cells accumulate with age, and cause increasingly harmful tissue dysfunction and chronic inflammation. There is good supporting evidence for this and other mechanisms of interest related to β-hydroxybutyrate to exist, the question (as always) is the effect size. How much of the known and well calibrated benefits of exercise and calorie restriction are due to greater ...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 15, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

60-something with wide complex tachycardia: from where does the rhythm originate?
p.p1 {margin: 0.1px 0.0px 0.1px 0.1px; font: 9.0px Helvetica}An elderly woman with history of coronary disease presented with CP and SOB and hypotension by EMS. EMS had attempted adenosine x 2 without success.Here is her ED ECG:Here is the ED physician ' s interpretation:IMPRESSIONUNCERTAIN REGULAR RHYTHM, wide complex tachycardia, likely p-waves.LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK [120+ ms QRS DURATION, 80+ ms Q/S IN V1/V2, 85+ ms R IN I/aVL/V5/V6]Comparison Summary: LBBB and tachycardia are new.What do you think?Smith: This is indeed a regular wide complex tachycardia. I do not see P-waves. Retrograde P...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - April 14, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs

Home-cooked meals with less salt
With more people staying at home these days, there’s more opportunity to prepare homemade meals. Although home-cooked meals tend to be much lower in salt than what you’d get from a restaurant, you still need to be careful, says Liz Moore, a dietitian at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). Why worry about salt? Most Americans consume far too much sodium, which raises blood pressure and the risk of heart disease. On average, we consume around 3,200 milligrams (mg) per day. That’s about 30% more than is recommended by the federal dietary guidelines, which advise people to limit their dai...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 14, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Julie Corliss Tags: Cooking and recipes Health Healthy Eating Hypertension and Stroke Source Type: blogs