Winter Short: Mitochondria, Platelets, Golgi, & Green Pens TAPP 127
Episode 127 is one of ourwinter shorts, where I replay interesting segments from previous episodes. In this one, you ' ll hear about the role ofplatelets in immunity, how theGolgi apparatus gets its weird shape, exactlyhow hot mitochondria get, and why we may want to consider marking assignments and tests with agreen pen, rather than a red one.00:00 | Introduction01:07 | Mitochondria02:29 | Platelets07:15 | Sponsored by AAA, HAPI, and HAPS08:49 | Golgi Apparatus13:51 | Green Pens16:20 | Staying Connected ★ If you cannot see or activate the audio player, go to:theAPprofessor.org/podcast-episode-127.html🏅...
Source: The A and P Professor - November 18, 2022 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
Lessons I Learned From My First Cardiac Arrest
It strange to think that it’s been almost 20 years since the first time I did CPR. I still remember it so vividly. How the time flies.
I was fortunate to have good mentors and teachers in my early days in EMS. One of them was Phil Rigardo. As an EMT student, Phil had invited me to come do a few ride-along’s with him. I owe a lot to Phil. He was one of the first major influences I had in EMS and he framed the job in a fun and exciting way. I’ve managed to carry that initial frame (EMS is fun) for most of my career.
I had been riding with Phil for a few shifts when we got dispatched to a cardiac arrest....
Source: The EMT Spot - November 15, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: EMT Source Type: blogs
Friday Feature: Teacher Let Your Light Shine
Colleen HroncichFrom award ‐winning public school teacher to microschool founder, teacher, and consultant, Makenzie Oliver has had quite a journey.Makenzie spent 7 years as a teacher in Missouri, where she was honored with a “Heartland ’s Best Teacher” award in 2013. After her family moved to Florida, she taught 5 years and then became an instructional coach. She won another “teacher of the year” award in Florida. While she loved teaching, she often felt that her hands were tied. Over the years, she began to realize that education could look very different than what she was able to do in ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 11, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Colleen Hroncich Source Type: blogs
Key Insights from the Healthcare CIO Panel at CHIME ’ s Fall Forum
This week I had the chance to spend time at the CHIME Fall Forum in San Antonio. It was great to be back together and it is still the best place to find healthcare CIOs. This year CHIME was celebrating their 30th anniversary at the event and they held a CIO panel that included a mix of CIOs across the generations:
Andrea Daugherty, CISSP, Interim CIO, Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas
Theresa Meadows, Senior Vice President and CHIO, Cook Children’s Health Care System
John Glaser, PhD
Liz Johnson, MS, FAAN, FCHIME, FHIMSS, CHCIO, RN-BCMS, Retired Chief Information Officer (moderator)
Here’s ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 10, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Andrea Daugherty CHIME CHIME CIO Health IT Leadership Healthcare Burnout Healthcare CIO Healthcare Disruption Healthcare Innovation Healthcare Leadership Healthcare Staffing Source Type: blogs
What Is Epinephrine?
A quick inside tip on field instructors; we all have our favorite questions to ask new riders. Those questions that help us get a more firm understanding of where our students knowledge base rests. What kind of practical knowledge are they carrying out into the field? Some of them are fair questions. Some of them aren’t. That’s life.
One of my favorite questions to ask that new rider early in the ride along is, “So what is epinephrine anyway?” (For the record, this is an extremely fair question.) I’ve found this to be a telling conversation because the scope of the question gives the student a l...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 10, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: EMT Source Type: blogs
Don ’t Forget To Ask The Patient
Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.
Giorgio Baglivi
It was nearly two decades ago that I knelt on the floor before Sammy in the Santa Clara County Sheriffs booking facility. I remember him so vividly that it’s hard to believe so much time has passed. There was nothing exceptional about him. Handcuffed to the waiting area bench, he looked very much like you might expect a man high on drugs, being booked for petty larceny, might look.
Sammy felt like his heart was racing and, given his drug history, the officer thought that he needed a once-over ...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 9, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: EMT Source Type: blogs
Sparking Rural Students ’ Interest in STEM
When asked why he leads the NIGMS-supported Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) program at Dartmouth College in Hannover, New Hampshire, Roger D. Sloboda, Ph.D., the Ira Allen Eastman Professor of Biological Sciences (emeritus), shares a story. Several years ago, he learned of a public-school science teacher in rural New Hampshire who had a very limited budget for classroom equipment. With her annual budget, she’d been able to buy a single stainless-steel laboratory cart. “Next year, I hope to buy a piece of equipment to put on it,” she said. A short time later, Dr. Sloboda attended a scientific meeting and ta...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - November 8, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist STEM Education Scientific Process Training Source Type: blogs
What being a hospice volunteer taught me about health care
The finality of death is a powerful teacher. For some patients, being diagnosed with a terminal illness is an experience that lends a tremendous shift in perspective and newfound authenticity. This can be instructive to them and the people around them. As psychologist Charles Garfield says, “The living have much to learn from the dying.”
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What being a hospice volunteer taught me about health care originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 5, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Farid Alsabeh Tags: Education Palliative Care Source Type: blogs
Friday Feature: Mysa Microschool
Colleen Hroncich“I accidentally started a school, ” says Siri Fiske, founder of Mysa Microschool.Siri has spent the majority of her adult life in education, primarily in urban schools in Los Angeles. She first got interested in education when her children attended a public school co ‐op in California. She began designing curriculum for a public school there, focusing on units of study and ways to make learning fun. She then worked for independent schools and spent seven years working at a school in Korea.Siri eventually moved to Washington, D.C. where she started designing her ideal school base...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 4, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Colleen Hroncich Source Type: blogs
Depression: The Highway to Success Has an Awful Lot of Detours
I’ll write a bit vaguely today because I want to touch upon some things that are family matters and how they impact me.Recently, I have noticed longtime readers of my blog have leapfrogged over me while my life has become stagnant. I caught myself beginning to feel bitter about it, so instead of letting that bitterness settle into depression, I will share some things that I have learned instead.My life took a detour a few years back, if eleven can be called of few. It was as if I was forced to take an exit and found myself on the service road bumping along besides the highway, falling behind all the other traffic. I ...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - November 4, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Depression Family Goodreads Journaling Post-COVID Source Type: blogs
What Is The Duty To Act?
This week I’d like to explore two related topics that tend to create a bunch of confusion – the duty to act and the good Samaritan law. If you want to see a room full of EMTs argue with each other, ask a question like, “So, when does an EMT have a legal duty to act?” or “To whom does the good sam law really apply?” These are subjects where myth and confusion are more common than fact so lets jump in to these two, often confusing, legal tenants.
Today we’ll look at the duty to act and on Thursday we’ll dive in to the good samaritan law.
On duty or off duty, paid or vo...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 2, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Steve Whitehead Tags: EMT Source Type: blogs
Ten Things We Forget to Tell Students About Cells | A Forest in My Office | TAPP 126
We listten things that we oftenforget to tell—or remind—our studentsabout cells. We learn how to create a peaceful forest-likeretreat in our office using soundscapes, I get mywinter shorts ready (seriously), andMargaret Reece comments about teachingurinary concepts. That last topic spurs a rant from Kevin ondiversity of course sections.00:00 | Introduction00:56 | Pee Again07:46 | A Forest in My Office13:54 | Sponsored by AAA14:27 | Getting Out My Winter Shorts17:31 | Sponsored by HAPI18:02 | Things We Forget to Tell Students About Cells33:45 | Sponsored by HAPS34:20 | More Things We Forget to Tell Students Ab...
Source: The A and P Professor - November 2, 2022 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
Keeping Track of the 2022 Ballot Measures
Walter OlsonLast week I posted aboutelection ‐related ballot measures in next week ’s vote, and in this post I’ll turn to measures on other subjects.More states are considering cannabis ‐related measures this year than ever more. All five (Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, North Dakota, and South Dakota) move in the direction of legalization, but with differences in tax and regulatory handling. Chris Edwards has lately looked at thetax implications and Jeff Miron at some ofthe substance ( “More than a century of experience demonstrates that prohibition is a treatment far worse than the ‘disease...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 1, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
Friday Feature: NaNoWriMo
Colleen HroncichMy oldest child wrote a novel when she was 13. It wasn ’t very long, but it had a plot, dialogue, character development, and a conclusion that hinted at a sequel. We still have several paperback copies of her book, which she received after participating inNaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month.NaNoWriMo, which takes place each November, challenges writers to draft an entire novel in just one month. While you can do outlining, character profiles, and other planning in advance, the actual writing should start November 1. For my daughter, like many other participants, the 30-day deadline really spurred ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 28, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Colleen Hroncich Source Type: blogs
