October 19th, 2011 by Iltifat Husain, M.D. in News
Tags: Anesthesiology, Blood Oxygen Level, Camera, Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Heart Rate, Instant Heart App, Internal Medicine, mHealth, OB/GYN, Plastic Surgery, Pulse Ox, Respiratory Rate, Smartphone App, Video Recording, Vital Signs, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute have developed a smartphone app that uses a camera to measure key vital signs. The type of technology used by the Worcester researchers is far and above more useful than a simple heart rate monitor, such as the Instant Heart Rate app.
Recently, the Instant Heart app makers received millions in funding – I hope it wasn’t based solely on the heart rate monitor app they have developed. Having a a patient’s heart rate alone isn’t that useful for a clinician, and it’s extremely easy to measure your heart rate on your own, just put your fingers to your wrist or neck.
But the work by Worcester researchers is completely different, exciting, and unlike the Instant Heart Rate app, Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at iMedicalApps*
October 17th, 2011 by Dinah Miller, M.D. in News
Tags: Funding, Government, Illness, Mental Disorders, Mental Health, Prevention, Psychiatry, Psychology, Resources, Stigma, Treatment, United Nations, WHO, World Health Organization
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U N I T E D N A T I O N S
THE SECRETARY-GENERAL—MESSAGE ON WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY: 10 October 2011
There is no health without mental health. Mental disorders are major contributors to illness and premature death, and are responsible for 13 percent of the global disease burden. With the global economic downturn – and associated austerity measures – the risks for mental ill-health are rising around the globe.
Poverty, unemployment, conflict and war all adversely affect mental health. In addition, the chronic, disabling nature of mental disorders often places a debilitating financial burden on individuals and households. Furthermore, individuals with mental health problems – and their families – endure stigma, discrimination and victimization, depriving them of their political and civil rights and constraining their ability to participate in the public life of their societies.
Resources allocated for mental health by governments and civil society are Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Shrink Rap*
October 17th, 2011 by Medgadget in News, Research
Tags: Automate, Cell Colonies, Cell Cultivation, Cell Cultures, Cell Growth, Device, Dr. Albrecht Brandenburg, IPM, Lab, Machine, Max Planck Institute, Microscopic, Research, Robot, Technology
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Cell cultures form the basis of many types of lab research, however growing these cell cultures has always been a time-consuming, laborious job that is largely done by hand.
That is about to change, with the Fraunhofer Institute and Max Planck Institute having developed a machine that completely automates the process of cultivating cells.
From the press release:
The device consists of an array of modules: One of these is a robot that transports the vessels containing the cell cultures, known as multititer plates, from one place to the next. Dr. Albrecht Brandenburg, group manager at IPM describes another module: Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Medgadget*
October 16th, 2011 by Toni Brayer, M.D. in News
Tags: Anesthetic, Cardiology, Conrad Murray, CPR, Criminal Trial, Death, Defense, Hospital, IV, Lorezepam, Manslaughter, Michael Jackson, Midazolam, Mouth-to-Mouth, Propofol, Prosecution, Sedation, Versed
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The 2nd degree manslaughter trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, the doctor who attended Michael Jackson at the time of his death June 25, 2009, is now underway in LA. The testimony that is taking place is certainly revealing of the last day of Mr. Jackson’s life. Michael Jackson died of an acute Propofol overdose and the toxicology report also revealed Valium, Lorezepam, Versed, Lidocaine and Ephedrine in his system. There were no illegal drugs.
Propofol is used as a powerful anesthetic and is given intravenously. It is not a drug that would be used outside of a medical facility or hospital. Versed (Midazolam) is also a drug that is used for conscious sedation for procedures in hospitals.
Dr. Conrad Murray is a cardiologist and served as Michael’s personal physician. He was trained at Meharry Medical College and did post graduate work at Mayo Clinic and Loma Linda University Medical Center in California. He studied Cardiology at Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at EverythingHealth*
October 11th, 2011 by RyanDuBosar in News, Research
Tags: Academic Hospitals, Bonus, Compensation, Data, Hospitalist, Income, Median Compensation, Medical Group Management Association, MGMA, Press Release, Productivity, Research, Salary, SHM, Society of Hospital Medicine, State of Hospital Medicine
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Hospitalists in adult medicine reported an increase in median compensation from $215,000 to $220,619 in 2010, while pediatric hospitalists median compensation rose from $160,038 in 2009 to $171,617 in 2010. Though hospitalists earned more in 2010, they also reported higher productivity. The annual median adult hospitalist physician work relative value unit (wRVU) rate was 4,166, a 1.4% increase over last year.
According to the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) and Society of Hospital Medicine’s (SHM’s) State of Hospital Medicine: 2011 Report Based on 2010 Data, compensation varied by how it was structured. Adult hospitalists with 50% base salary or less reported median compensation of $288,154, while adult hospitalists with 51-70% base salary reported median compensation of $249,250. Adult hospitalists who reported 71-90% base salary earned Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at ACP Hospitalist*
