February 28, 2010 – 4:00 pm
What a perfect way to end a shitty week, strep throat. It never ceases to amaze me how I end up with this crap.In general I having been feeling pretty good. Physically I thought I was doing well. I did end up going to a massage therapist to help with the after effects of the torso/surgery issues. I felt pretty good getting up off the table and my torso was doing so much better though when I went to stand up straight whatever she did caused my lower region to cramp. I was doubled over in pain for most of that day. Too bad that happened at nine in the morning. I worked the remainder of the day with the help of drugs. Drinks that night and the next were helpful.The best medicine thus far has been a fellow RPL buddy that lives here in my city. She was up and willing to go for drinks when I ema…
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February 28, 2010 – 4:00 pm
We report a case of encephalitis diagnosed as the H1N1 virus infection. We describe a 17-year-old patient who had a seizure attack, diagnosed with a H1N1 virus infection via real time reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). The H1N1 virus infection can be causative of the encephalitis, as with other influenza virus infections. Careful monitoring is essential for reducing complications.
PMID: 20191027 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Yonsei Medical Journal)
February 28, 2010 – 4:00 pm
We report a case of encephalitis diagnosed as the H1N1 virus infection. We describe a 17-year-old patient who had a seizure attack, diagnosed with a H1N1 virus infection via real time reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). The H1N1 virus infection can be causative of the encephalitis, as with other influenza virus infections. Careful monitoring is essential for reducing complications.
PMID: 20191027 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Yonsei Medical Journal)
February 28, 2010 – 12:00 pm
by Patrice Villars
Recently, a physician colleague expressed her concern about signing routine hospice admission orders for her elderly patient with end stage heart failure. The routine ‘as needed’ (PRN) orders included phenobarbital, pentobarbital, haloperidol, lorazepam, and morphine. “The hospice nurses know more about this than I do, don’t they?” she said.
Yesterday, a longtime palliative care nurse told me she didn’t want to put her mother with end stage heart failure in a nursing home with hospice, because “they’ll just give her morphine and Ativan. I want her heart failure managed.”
I worked as a hospice case manager in the community for eight years prior to becoming a nurse practitioner (NP) and have blogged in the past here about similar concerns. In my experien…
February 28, 2010 – 9:35 am
At Our Bodies Our Blog, I posted about a couple of calls for support of midwifery-related legislation – in Mississippi and at the Federal level, and on ACNM’s new statement in support of making nitrous oxide available for pain relief in labor, while C has an update on healthcare reform.
Other items of interest:
At the workplace, a new OB emergency team is being launched, and it includes an attending CNM.
At RHRC, Robin Marty talks about Angie Jackson’s tweetin of her abortion. Angie herself writes more about her experience at Angie the Anti-Theist. My response is basically to adapt what I said about Trunk tweeting her miscarriage:
But you know what? Her tweet, and her motives for publishing it, are not the issue – the responses she reports receiving are. The comments …
February 27, 2010 – 4:00 pm
Background:
During an infectious disease outbreak, it is critical to learn as much as possible about the concerns, knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of the public. Such information can be crucial to the improvement of communication efforts by public health officials and clinicians. The aim of this study was to identify awareness, attitudes, and practices related to influenza A (H1N1) among the Saudi public.
Methods:
A cross-sectional study of 1,548 adult subjects recruited from various shopping malls in Riyadh and Jeddah was conducted. All of the subjects were interviewed using a questionnaire that tested their knowledge, attitudes, and use of precautionary measures in relation to the H1N1 influenza pandemic.
Results:
More than half (54.3%, 840/1548) of the participants showed high concer…
February 27, 2010 – 5:40 am
We learned from the swine flu that not all pandemics are particularly lethal. But we also found out that a safe, fast-track vaccine is possible. (Source: RWJF News Digest – Public Health)
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February 27, 2010 – 1:00 am
Eva M. Binczak has been recognized by Stanford Who’s Who as a result of her exceptional effort in the Healthcare Industry.
February 27, 2010 – 1:00 am
John Robert Jelfs has earned the recognition of Stanford Who’s Who due to his outstanding effort in the Pharmaceutical Industry.
February 27, 2010 – 12:00 am
CanaDuct.com, the company that specializes in air duct cleaning, vent cleaning, furnace and air conditioning cleaning, suggests adding twice-yearly duct cleaning to your home maintenance schedule.
