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The future of the air medical services workforce
Darla FerraraAir medical services are an integrated element in the emergency medical system. The practice of using aviation to transport trauma patients began with the military, but today helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft can be the best — or sometimes the only — transportation available to patients in rural areas.
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Apps that could help with ER wait times
Becky BicksThere’s a new development in the mobile world that could end up helping with that ever-present problem of the interminable emergency room wait time. Hospitals and developers across the country have started releasing emergency room wait time apps, which broadcast the average time a patient will have to wait in a specific hospital’s emergency room or in the emergency rooms of hospitals in a specific area.
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Self-care for the caregiver
Karen ChildressYour middle-aged patient is slightly overweight with blood pressure and lipid levels that are both borderline and a lifestyle that’s contributing to all three concerns. He works long hours in a stressful job, doesn't exercise enough, and rarely gets what most people would consider a full night’s sleep.
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The role of aquaporin-4 in cerebral edema and neuroinflammation
Dr. Afsaneh Motamed-KhorasaniAquaporin-4 plays a significant role in potassium homeostasis and facilitates the water diffusion through potassium gradient for brain activity. AQP4 might also be involved in cell adhesion, migration and neuroinflammation. The neuroinflammation is an acute phase after brain injury, along with edema, and brain diseases like multiple sclerosis.
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Physician assistants and interprofessional education
Maria FrischPhysician Assistants go on to work in a variety of settings – many of which demand an ability to work with diverse sets of professionals. Those who engage in research will discover a culture of funding that necessitates working with an interdisciplinary group of professionals who bring different perspectives and approaches to a problem. Few physician assistants find a career path that limits their professional interactions to only other physician assistants.
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Big Pharma replaces innovation with acquisition
Mike WokaschBig Pharma (including Big Biotech) has executed about 130 mergers or acquisitions in each of the past couple of years. The overwhelming majority of deals designed to fill depleted Big Pharma pipelines with more novel and innovative technologies in later stages (closer to market) than their own R&D had been able to produce.
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Microfluidic systems for screening of aptamers
Dr. Afsaneh Motamed-KhorasaniSystematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX) is a method to screen the nucleotide ligands from a large library of nucleotide sequences. Aptamers are the nucleotide ligands selected by SELEX method and can be easily and inexpensively produced. Chemical modification and integration into different analytical methods is also easy with aptamers.
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Doctors are an untapped resource in understanding ACA
Pamela Lewis DolanDoctors and nurses, who are among the most trusted sources of information about the Affordable Care Act in many patients' opinions, could play a valuable role in helping the public understand the law. But they are among the least used sources from which most people have actually received information.
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Don’t demonize the machine
Mark HuberIn late August, another Eurocopter Super Puma crashed into the North Sea near the United Kingdom. Four of those aboard died. Over the last several years, a handful of ditchings/crashes of this model have been tied to flaws in the design of its main rotor gearbox lubrication system and a batch of replacement main rotor shafts.
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Why your helicopter seat feels like a brick
Mark HuberNASA is planning to drop-test a surplus Marine Corps CH-46 helicopter on Aug. 28 with the goal of gleaning new data on rotorcraft crashworthiness and seat belt design. The hulk will be rigged with 40 cameras, numerous sensors and 13 crash dummies. The test is part of NASA's Rotary Wing Project.
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