What’s pH got to do with it?

Remember learning about the pH scale in science class?  That was pretty much the last time I gave any thought to acidity vs. alkalinity, that is until I started studying nutrition.  It turns out that many of the most prominent diseases in our society often come down to one thing, pH imbalance. Almost every patient [...]

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Non-physician providers in the ICU.

While this study is only retrospective and mortality rate was the only measure, it does contribute to this needed conversation about PA’s and NP’s care. ICU Outcomes No Different Without Physician Staffing | National Nursing News With ICUs facing staff shortages that are predicted to worsen in the future, a recent study suggests that non-physician [...]

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Een(t)weetje: @FamHealthGuide Squeeze an Arm, Protect the Heart

ScienceDaily (June 8, 2011) — Scientists at the University of Leicester are investigating a novel technique that promises to protect heart muscle from life-threatening damage following a heart attack — simply by squeezing an arm. Heart attacks are the major cause of premature death in England, with massive implications for survival and costs of long-term [...]

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Society for Complexity in Acute Illness.

I had a chance to listen Dr. Andriy Batchinsky about his approach to study complexity of acute Illness using application of nonlinear analysis techniques to investigation of cardiovascular regulatory complexity during hemorrhagic shock, burn shock and resuscitation, combined trauma animal models, as well as for non-invasive assessment of trauma patients.  He mentioned me another group have heavily using simulation [...]

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Telemedicine improves mortality rates for heart failure patients.

By Sara Jackson.   After finding no overall benefit for congestive heart failure patients using telemedicine, researchers of a Dutch and a German telehealth study, respectively, decided to dig a little deeper. What they uncovered were several subsets of CHF patients who saw statistically significant benefits from telemedicine in terms of improved mortality rates and [...]

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-Maandag crisisoverleg over EHEC in Berlijn-

BERLIJN – In Berlijn wordt maandag crisisberaad gehouden over de uitbraak van de darmbacterie EHEC, die tot dusver in Duitsland tien mensenlevens heeft geëist. Onder meer de bondsregering, de overheden van de deelstaten en autoriteiten op het gebied van volksgezondheid en landbouw schuiven daarbij aan, zo is zondag bekendgemaakt. In Duitsland zijn waarschijnlijk meer dan [...]

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Tsjechië mogelijk het negende land met besmettingen EHEC-bacterie

In Frankrijk en Zwitserland zijn mogelijke ook besmettingen gemeld. Daarmee wordt de lijst van de gevaarlijke bacterie enterohemorragische E.coli (EHEC) alsmaar langer. Alleen al in Duitsland zijn er tien doden te betreuren en duizend bevestigde en verdachte infecties. Frankrijk heeft de komkommers ook uit de schappen gehaald nadat er drie verdachte met voedselvergiftiging werden gemeld [...]

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-Safe to Double-Up Stenting Carotid, Coronary Arteries-

Complex, high surgical risk patients with concomitant carotid and coronary artery disease could successfully undergo combined percutaneous stenting treatment, a longterm analysis found. Click here for the full story: http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/PeripheralArteryDisease/26542

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