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3 exciting innovations that impact the EMS community
Mark Huber Medical & Allied HealthcareThere has been lots of news on the technology front in the last few weeks. Here is a look at three innovative ideas that will aid those who work in emergency medical services.
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Study: THC has no effect on Alzheimer’s symptoms
Dr. Denise A. Valenti Medical & Allied HealthcareThey did not get buzzed, but they also did not get better. The results of a study looking at marijuana-related treatment and Alzheimer's disease was recently published in Neurology. The study used an oral cannabinoid containing tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the primary active ingredient in marijuana, in a formulation of a controlled dose. However, researchers found no improvement in the test subjects' behavioral symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.
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Including an AED as part of the RIT team
Joshua Daisy Law Enforcement, Defense & SecurityThe fire service has a high rate of heart-related emergencies. According to the American Heart Association, the chance of survival from a sudden cardiac arrest decreases by 10 percent for each minute that passes. Is your department prepared for a firefighter's sudden cardiac arrest on a fire scene?
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Study: ED intervention helps encourage tobacco cessation
Lynn Hetzler Medical & Allied HealthcareSmokers listen when emergency department doctors tell them to kick the habit, according to a new study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. The results of this study suggest that ED physicians have a great opportunity to reduce overall smoking rates for the approximately 20 million smokers across the United States.
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What we know in Year 2 of health insurance marketplace enrollment
Christina Thielst Healthcare AdministrationThe health insurance marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act are now in their second year of insuring consumers. While there continue to be some glitches, there are more insured Americans — some possibly for the first time in their life. Almost 8.84 million people have signed up for Affordable Care Act qualified plans through Healthcare.gov, and 53 percent of these are newly enrolled in 2015. An additional 2.8 million people have signed up for marketplace plans in states operating their own health insurance exchanges.
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Weed candy is sending more children to the hospital
Dr. Denise A. Valenti Law Enforcement, Defense & SecurityThey look, smell and taste like our favorite candies, but marijuana candy edibles can be a real danger to children. The sweet confections are often packaged to appear like the popular treats with which toddlers and children are familiar. This appearance is not an accident — the marijuana candy products are designed to attract and entice the consumer. But when children ingest marijuana, the results can be serious and even life-threatening.
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Empowering nurses to be their best
Keith Carlson Medical & Allied HealthcareAs a nurse manager, I am constantly wondering if we provide our nurses with the most empowering environment possible in which they can grow and thrive. We all want nurses to feel empowered, but are we doing enough?
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Study: Frequent ED users are at higher risk for death
Lynn Hetzler Medical & Allied HealthcareThose who use emergency department services frequently are not time-wasters, according to a new study, but are actually at higher risk for death. There are more than 136 million emergency department (ED) visits in the United States each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The researchers in this new study defined a frequent user as someone who visits an emergency department between four and 20 times a year.
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Study: Generic as good as name brand for post-transplant drugs
Lynn Hetzler Medical & Allied HealthcareGeneric formulations of tacrolimus are as effective as the name-brand version, according to a recent study led by the University of Cincinnati. Researchers enrolled 70 kidney and liver transplant patients into a prospective, blinded, six-way crossover study. Participants underwent transplantation at one of two hospitals — University of Cincinnati Medical Center or The Christ Hospital (Cincinnati).
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What we’ve learned from the epidemiology of Ebola
Dr. Afsaneh Motamed-Khorasani Medical & Allied HealthcareEbola viruses are highly virulent zoonoses affecting both humans and nonhuman primates. The virus contains a single-strand linear RNA of 18-19 kb encoding seven genes (NP, VP35, VP40, VP30, VO24 and GP). Furthermore, five genetically distinct species are known for it, including: Zaire Ebola virus (ZEBOV), Sudan Ebola virus (SEBOV), Cote d'Ivoire Ebola virus, Bundibugyo Ebola virus (BEBOV) and Reston Ebola virus (REBOV) with different genomic sequence, genomic overlap number and location, and virulence. REBOV can only affect nonhuman primates, while the other four versions are responsible for Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) breakouts.
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