April 4th, 2010 by Bongi in Better Health Network, Health Policy, News, Opinion, True Stories
Tags: Ambulance, Emergency Medicine, Emergency Services, Mamelodi, Paramedics, Police Escort, Pretoria, South Africa, War
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This isn’t really my story, but in a sense it belongs to all South Africans. It’s our shame and may be part of our downfall.
We are a people at war. We war against ourselves and we war against peace. Each fights for himself and bugger the rest. But who heals the fallen? It seems in South Africa that quite soon it may be no one.
Recently a story made the news. It was shocking, but it actually gives an inclination of how morally decayed South African society has become. An ambulance was despatched to some informal settlement after a household fire burned a child. The caretakers of the child brought the child to an intersection that the ambulance would actually be able to find. quite soon the paramedics were hard at work stabilising the screaming child. At about this stage, two armed thugs turned up. They threatened the child’s caretakers with their lives and forced them to flee. Then, while the child continued to scream in pain, they raped the female paramedic. They were not caught. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at other things amanzi*
April 4th, 2010 by GruntDoc in Better Health Network, News, Opinion, True Stories
Tags: Catheters, Combat Casualties, Deployed Doctors, Dr. York, Emergency Medicine, Emergency Room, General Surgery, Imaging, Increased Odds of Survival, Internal Injuries, Internal Medicine, Interventional Radiologist, Iraq, Kandahar, Micro-Operations, Military, Radiology, Wounded Soldiers, X-ray
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There’s a nice WSJ article on how forward treatment of combat casualties has become possible. Kudos to these deployed doctors, and to the military that invests the time, money and effort to make things like this happen:
Dr. York, an interventional radiologist who usually performs surgery at the U.S. Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Va., is especially skilled at treating internal injuries. His type of surgery—using X-rays and imaging equipment to guide catheters through veins to perform micro-operations—is comparatively rare in emergency rooms. But in the cramped Kandahar hospital, it is critical to saving lives.
via Wounded Soldiers Have Increased Odds of Survival – WSJ.com.
Probably the world’s only front-line (literally) interventional radiologist.
HT: He who shall not be named.
*This blog post was originally published at GruntDoc*
April 4th, 2010 by Joshua Schwimmer, M.D. in Better Health Network, News, Opinion
Tags: Apple, E-Tools, General Medicine, Health Apps, healthcare, iPad, Medical Apps, Primary Care, Virtual Medicine
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The first iPad reviews are out, and they’re very positive. Here’s a selection of the reviews (compiled by MacRumors):
And here’s a roundup of recent medical blogs commentary on the iPad:
iMedical Apps has a nice review of how 5 medical apps might appear on the iPad, including the Blausten Human Atlas, Visual Dx Mobile, Procedures Consult, OsiriX and eFilm, and Papers.
The Unofficial Apple Weblog features a review of Carter’s Encyclopedia of Health and Medicine, an app designed specifically for the iPad. (This is not an eBook, but a full app with searchable interactive skeletons, etc.)
CareCloud, a new cloud-based EHR, plans to have an iPad version. Epic already has an iPhone app and presumably will have an iPad version available. Allscripts is rumored to have an upcoming EHR for the iPad. (No word on whether other EHRs plan on having an iPad app. If you have any information, please post a comment.)
According to Macworld, 1 in 5 doctors plan to buy an iPad. The Practice Fusion Blog has a discussion of other iPad-related surveys of doctors and healthcare professionals.
Healthcare Technology Online has a discussion of the pros of cons of the iPad in healthcare. Read more »
This post, How Will The iPad Fare In Healthcare?, was originally published on
Healthine.com by Joshua Schwimmer, M.D..
April 4th, 2010 by DrWes in Better Health Network, News, True Stories
Tags: Cardiology, Emergency Medicine, Heart, Nail Gun, Pierced, Survived, Workplace Safety
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…and he lived (video) to talk about it:
The man’s heart was pierced as he was nailing boards with a co-worker at a carpentry shop. The shop’s owner said the men were working together, when suddenly, they ran into each other resulting in the nail gun going off.
Oops.
-WesMusings of a cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist.
*This blog post was originally published at Dr. Wes*
April 4th, 2010 by Berci in Better Health Network, News, Opinion
Tags: Blogs.com, Clinical Medicine Blogs, E-Learning, E-Patients, E-Tools, General Medicine, Health Bloggers, Medical Education, Vitual Medicine
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Thanks to Dr. Mike Cadogan, Scienceroll.com is included in the list of “Top 10 Clinical Medicine Blogs” on Blogs.com, and described as:
Amazingly comprehensive blog covering all aspects of medical education, medical technology, e-learning and virtual medicine. Through his blog, Dr. Bertalan Meskó aims to arm all medical professionals with the e-tools required to meet and manage the next generation of e-patients.
Here’s the top 10 list in alphabetical order:
33 charts
Academic Life in Emergency Medicine
Clinical Cases and Images
Clinical Correlations
Dr Shock MD PhD
Life in the Fast Lane
Musings of a Distractible Mind
Other Things Amanzi
Science-Based Medicine
Scienceroll
*This blog post was originally published at ScienceRoll*
