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Hemophilia educational videos by CDC
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Hemophilia belongs to a family of inherited lifelong bleeding conditions that prevent blood from clotting properly. Patients with these disorders bleed for longer than normal, either as a result of injury or spontaneously without an external cause.
The severity of bleeding depends on the amount of clotting factor that is missing or not functioning properly, which in hemophilia A and B - the most common types of hemophilia - is the coagulation factors VIII and IX, respectively.
In addition to external bleeding, patients more commonly have internal bleeding around the joints and muscles, which can be extremely painful and cause permanent disability. Bleeding into major organs such as the brain is especially difficult to manage and can be fatal.
Here are 2 hemophilia educational videos by CDC: Playing it Safe With Hemophilia: Friends with hemophilia talk about playing sports growing up and the importance of making smart decisions.
Starting the Conversation: Hemophilia. How to talk to your friends about hemophilia. A group of friends ask their friend Billy questions about his hemophilia:
Hemophilia care has undergone substantial improvements during the past 40 - 50 years. Early clotting factor concentrates were not sufficiently refined to enable self-administered treatment at home until the 1970s.
Long-term substitution therapy (prophylaxis) of the missing clotting factor is the recommended treatment in severe hemophilia. The major side-effect of treatment, development of inhibitors to the infused concentrate, is the main threat to the health of patients.
Mnemonic: Differential Diagnosis of Bleeding Disorders: F-CAP
Fibrinolysis - tPA
Coagulopathy - hemophilia, vWD
Angiopathy - conditions affecting blood vessels, e.g. Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome
Platelets - thrombocytopenia or thrombocytopathia
Initial diagnostic tests = 3P:
Platelets
PT - INR
PTT
References:
http://www.cdc.gov/NCBDDD/video/Hemophilia_sports/index.html
http://www.cdc.gov/NCBDDD/video/Hemophilia_Friends/index.html
Making haemophilia a global priority - The Lancet, 2012.
Modern haemophilia care - The Lancet, 2012.
The severity of bleeding depends on the amount of clotting factor that is missing or not functioning properly, which in hemophilia A and B - the most common types of hemophilia - is the coagulation factors VIII and IX, respectively.
In addition to external bleeding, patients more commonly have internal bleeding around the joints and muscles, which can be extremely painful and cause permanent disability. Bleeding into major organs such as the brain is especially difficult to manage and can be fatal.
Here are 2 hemophilia educational videos by CDC: Playing it Safe With Hemophilia: Friends with hemophilia talk about playing sports growing up and the importance of making smart decisions.
Starting the Conversation: Hemophilia. How to talk to your friends about hemophilia. A group of friends ask their friend Billy questions about his hemophilia:
Hemophilia care has undergone substantial improvements during the past 40 - 50 years. Early clotting factor concentrates were not sufficiently refined to enable self-administered treatment at home until the 1970s.
Long-term substitution therapy (prophylaxis) of the missing clotting factor is the recommended treatment in severe hemophilia. The major side-effect of treatment, development of inhibitors to the infused concentrate, is the main threat to the health of patients.
Mnemonic: Differential Diagnosis of Bleeding Disorders: F-CAP
Fibrinolysis - tPA
Coagulopathy - hemophilia, vWD
Angiopathy - conditions affecting blood vessels, e.g. Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome
Platelets - thrombocytopenia or thrombocytopathia
Initial diagnostic tests = 3P:
Platelets
PT - INR
PTT
References:
http://www.cdc.gov/NCBDDD/video/Hemophilia_sports/index.html
http://www.cdc.gov/NCBDDD/video/Hemophilia_Friends/index.html
Making haemophilia a global priority - The Lancet, 2012.
Modern haemophilia care - The Lancet, 2012.
Dr Topol to med students: "When I was in medical school, the term "digital" was reserved for the rectal examination"
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Here are some excerpts from the Baylor College of Medicine commencement address by Dr. Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute, delivered yesterday, May 22, 2012. This should be a required reading for everyone involved in healthcare, which is basically everybody because each and every one of us will be a patient one day.
Eric Topol to medical students: "When I was in medical school, the term "digital" was reserved for the rectal examination."
"You sleep with your cell phone and prize it right up there with food and water. We have evolved to a new species of man. We are Homo distractus!"
The benefits of digital medicine are clear to Dr. Topol who shares the story of a patient he saw last week: "I asked him to put his fingers on the 2 sensors on the back of my iPhone case so I could do his electrocardiogram—ECG—that was normal. And free, by the way. Then instead of using a stethoscope to listen to his heart, I used a portable pocket-sized high-resolution ultrasound device and within a minute I could see every heart structure—the heart muscle thickness and function, the valves, the size of the 4 chambers. Why would I ever listen for lub-dub when I can see everything? I haven't used a stethoscope for over 2 years to listen to a patient's heart."
From Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) YouTube channel: 2012 Commencement Speaker, Dr. Eric Topol, spoke on May 21, 2012:
Here is Eric Topol's presentation at Health at Google:
References:
Baylor College of Medicine commencement address by Dr. Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute
Comments from Twitter
Quoc-Dien Trinh, MD @qdtrinh: Makes it sound cool. “@DrVes: Dr Topol to med studs: When I was in med school, the term "digital" was reserved for the rectal examination"
Eric Topol to medical students: "When I was in medical school, the term "digital" was reserved for the rectal examination."
"You sleep with your cell phone and prize it right up there with food and water. We have evolved to a new species of man. We are Homo distractus!"
The benefits of digital medicine are clear to Dr. Topol who shares the story of a patient he saw last week: "I asked him to put his fingers on the 2 sensors on the back of my iPhone case so I could do his electrocardiogram—ECG—that was normal. And free, by the way. Then instead of using a stethoscope to listen to his heart, I used a portable pocket-sized high-resolution ultrasound device and within a minute I could see every heart structure—the heart muscle thickness and function, the valves, the size of the 4 chambers. Why would I ever listen for lub-dub when I can see everything? I haven't used a stethoscope for over 2 years to listen to a patient's heart."
From Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) YouTube channel: 2012 Commencement Speaker, Dr. Eric Topol, spoke on May 21, 2012:
Here is Eric Topol's presentation at Health at Google:
References:
Baylor College of Medicine commencement address by Dr. Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute
Comments from Twitter
Quoc-Dien Trinh, MD @qdtrinh: Makes it sound cool. “@DrVes: Dr Topol to med studs: When I was in med school, the term "digital" was reserved for the rectal examination"
The evolution of a physician's blog
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Dr. Smith presents his research poster, which charts the tremendous growth of his eponymous blog, Dr Smith’s ECG blog. The blog is practically free to maintain, hosted by Google's service, Blogger.com, and will break 1,000,000 page views this year. The site itself represents a living and breathing, dynamic textbook: http://hqmeded-ecg.blogspot.com
Dr. Stephen W. Smith is a faculty physician in the Emergency Medicine Residency at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) in Minneapolis, MN, and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Stephen W. Smith is a faculty physician in the Emergency Medicine Residency at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) in Minneapolis, MN, and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota.
19 Haziran 2012 Salı
Social media FTW: Mayo Clinic offers preferred early access to journalists and bloggers to health news
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The newly launched "Mayo Clinic News Network" is billed as the journalists' multimedia source for health, science and research information: http://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org
The no cost, password-protected site for journalists offers the latest breaking medical news, videos, graphics, links for background, animation, experts and patient interviews. Journalists from TV, radio, newspaper, blogs, and mobile platforms are invited to visit our site http://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org and register. Pending approval, you will have access to this rich source of multimedia content.
I feature high-quality videos from Mayo Clinic on CasesBlog 2-3 times per month, and after some brief consideration I registered and applied for access. I will let you know if a medical blog with 7 million page views qualifies for access to the Mayo Clinic News Network or not (update: the application was approved).
The flagship journal of ACP, Annals of Internal Medicine, already includes medical bloggers in their embargoed news release before each new issue.
The ACP Internist website took a step further and includes guest posts from hand-picked medical bloggers (disclaimer: I am one of the selected authors). Many of the posts are quite interesting and cover a wide variety of topics. You can see for yourself here: http://blog.acpinternist.org
Kudos to the ACP editor Ryan DuBosar who is leading the medical blog initiative there: http://blog.acpinternist.org/2012/05/qd-news-every-day-nearly-1-in-8-doctors.html
The no cost, password-protected site for journalists offers the latest breaking medical news, videos, graphics, links for background, animation, experts and patient interviews. Journalists from TV, radio, newspaper, blogs, and mobile platforms are invited to visit our site http://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org and register. Pending approval, you will have access to this rich source of multimedia content.
I feature high-quality videos from Mayo Clinic on CasesBlog 2-3 times per month, and after some brief consideration I registered and applied for access. I will let you know if a medical blog with 7 million page views qualifies for access to the Mayo Clinic News Network or not (update: the application was approved).
The flagship journal of ACP, Annals of Internal Medicine, already includes medical bloggers in their embargoed news release before each new issue.
The ACP Internist website took a step further and includes guest posts from hand-picked medical bloggers (disclaimer: I am one of the selected authors). Many of the posts are quite interesting and cover a wide variety of topics. You can see for yourself here: http://blog.acpinternist.org
Kudos to the ACP editor Ryan DuBosar who is leading the medical blog initiative there: http://blog.acpinternist.org/2012/05/qd-news-every-day-nearly-1-in-8-doctors.html
What you need to check on the sunscreen label
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Here are some simple tips for sunscreen selection and use from CNN:
- Use a sunscreen with a minimum of SPF 15 and a maximum of SPF 50. SPF 15 can block 93% of incoming UVB rays. SPF 30 blocks 97%. SPF 50 blocks 98%.
- Make sure labels list both UVA and UVB protection
You get exposed to both UVA and UVB light:
UVB light is the light that Burns (causes sunburn)
UVA light as the light that Ages the skin (wrinkles, etc.)
- Avoid products containing oxybenzone and retinyl palminate. They may get absorbed through the skin and may increase cancer risk
- Choose lotions versus spray sunscreens for a more evenly distribution
- Remember to apply at least 2 ounces of lotion (about a shot glass full). Reapply every 2 hours. Reapply after swimming or heavy sweating.
How to apply sunscreen - NHS video:
References:
Avoid sunscreens with potentially harmful ingredients, group warns. CNN, 2012.
How to avoid damaging ultraviolet light - CCJM launches "Patient Page" similar to JAMA
Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.
Here are some simple tips for sunscreen selection and use from CNN:- Use a sunscreen with a minimum of SPF 15 and a maximum of SPF 50. SPF 15 can block 93% of incoming UVB rays. SPF 30 blocks 97%. SPF 50 blocks 98%.
- Make sure labels list both UVA and UVB protection
You get exposed to both UVA and UVB light:
UVB light is the light that Burns (causes sunburn)
UVA light as the light that Ages the skin (wrinkles, etc.)
- Avoid products containing oxybenzone and retinyl palminate. They may get absorbed through the skin and may increase cancer risk
- Choose lotions versus spray sunscreens for a more evenly distribution
- Remember to apply at least 2 ounces of lotion (about a shot glass full). Reapply every 2 hours. Reapply after swimming or heavy sweating.
How to apply sunscreen - NHS video:
References:
Avoid sunscreens with potentially harmful ingredients, group warns. CNN, 2012.
How to avoid damaging ultraviolet light - CCJM launches "Patient Page" similar to JAMA
Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.
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