Causes and Evaluation of Mildly Elevated Liver Transaminase Levels – American Family Physician.
Demystifying the Congenital Long QT Diagnosis
Demystifying the Congenital Long QT Diagnosis.
The incidence of the congenital long QT syndrome is about 1 in 2500 births. This is likely an underestimate as sudden death with a normal autopsy may be the first and only presentation. There are 12 genes responsible for 3 main types of c-LQTS. The presentation is one of aborted sudden death or brief arrhythmia. This usually manifests as sudden, without warning syncope, near syncope or prolonged syncope with seizures. Many are misdiagnosed with seizure disorder or vasovagal syncope.
Most Emergency Room Super Frequent Users Have Addiction Disorder – MedicalResearch.com
MedicalResearch: What are the main findings of the study?
Answer: We found that within our group of 255 known Emergency Department “super-frequent users,” 77% had with some type of addiction disorder, and 47 percent visited the Emergency Department seeking narcotics for pain. Women were more likely to be narcotic seeking. Using our individualized Electronic Medical Record care plan intervention, created and overseen by our multidisciplinary team (comprised of Emergency Department staff physicians, a psychologist, residents, nurses and support staff), we found that our plan significantly decreased annual rates of visits by these super-frequent users and those who sought pain-relief narcotics and other super-frequent users.
Can Social Security Double as Life Insurance? – LifeHealthPro
Viagra and Melanoma Risk
Viagra Frisky Might Be Melanoma Risky.
Men who used the erectile-function drug sildenafil (Viagra) had almost twice the risk of melanoma compared with men who never used the drug, a study of 26,000 men showed.
Recent sildenafil use was associated with an 84% greater risk of melanoma.
Death Maps
For the morbidly curious professional underwriter.
Death map: The most common causes of death in each state of the union.
How Does Music Benefit the Brain? – Medical News Today
I work from a home office located in Edmond, OK. At the AHOU meeting several years ago in San Antonio, I met up with an underwriting professional whom I hadn’t seen in years. He asked what I was doing. I told him I worked from home.
I’m not surprised. You always talked about working from home.
I listen to music all day long while working. The music is mostly classical, occasionally acoustic guitar, sometimes jazz. I didn’t realize I was feeding my brain.
How does music benefit the brain? – Medical News Today.
But music can do so much more, notes Michael Huckabee, professor and director of the University of Nebraska Medical Center Division of Physician Assistant Education.
In an article about the benefits of music on human health, he writes:
”Music does something beyond our understanding. We can call it an endorphin release or a distraction, but it goes much deeper than that. Somehow music just does us good. And the good it does was just proven to be better.”
He speaks of a finding from researchers in Taiwan, who recently reviewed over 360 published studies on music therapy and concluded the data from these studies suggest cancer patients who routinely listen to music exhibit significantly fewer symptoms of depression, pain, fatigue and anxiety.
Gross Anatomy: Squirrel Tissue in Buttock
Gross Anatomy: Squirrel Tissue in Buttock.
When EMTs arrived on the scene of the boy’s injury, they reported visible “squirrel parts” in the margin of a buckshot wound. Such wounds are not unusual, but how did the squirrel get in there?
Credit: MedPage Today
Poisoning and the Diagnosis of Brain Death – The Poison Review
Episode #4: Poisoning and the diagnosis of brain death | The Poison Review.
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At midnight the patient is taken to the operating room to have her organs harvested for donation.
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On the operating room table she opens her eyes spontaneously and the operation is cancelled
Oops.
Safety Alerts – Pradaxa dabigatran – Lower Risk for Stroke and Death, but Higher Risk for GI Bleeding Compared to Warfarin
ISSUE: The FDA recently completed a new study in Medicare patients comparing Pradaxa to warfarin, for risk of ischemic or clot-related stroke, bleeding in the brain, major gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding, myocardial infarction (MI), and death. The new study included information from more than 134,000 Medicare patients, 65 years or older, and found that among new users of blood-thinning drugs, Pradaxa was associated with a lower risk of clot-related strokes, bleeding in the brain, and death, than warfarin. The study also found an increased risk of major gastrointestinal bleeding with use of Pradaxa as compared to warfarin. The MI risk was similar for the two drugs.
Importantly, the new study is based on a much larger and older patient population than those used in FDA’s earlier review of post-market data, and employed a more sophisticated analytical method to capture and analyze the events of concern. This study’s findings, except with regard to MI, are consistent with the clinical trial results that provided the basis for Pradaxa’s approval. As a result of these latest findings, the FDA still considers Pradaxa to have a favorable benefit to risk profile and have made no changes to the current label or recommendations for use.
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