A March 8, 2018 in NEJM looks at the potential health effects of the smokes form wildfires. This Perspective article was entitield “The New England Journal of Medicine — Where There’s Wildfire, There’s Smoke.” This article looks at the increased number of wildfires and their potential health effects. The recent Napa wildfires Fine particles are… Read More
This 10 July 2017 Article by Amal Mattu in Western Journal of Emergency Medicine warns that hyperkalemia might be a cause of bradycardia and to consider calcium in resistant bradycardia. The obvious answer to the question posed in the title is “yes,” but the actual ECG findings that predict adverse events are apparently not well… Read More
A February 20, 2018 issue of Modern Healthcare reported on a letter that Consolidation throughout the healthcare industry was increasing costs by driving more care from private offices to the more expensive location of hospitals, the Physicians Advocacy Institute warned in a letter to Congress. Healthcare organizations have been joining forces to try to get ahead of the… Read More
This year’s deadly flu epidemic has led to a lot of questions of why we are seeing cardiac arrhythmias, myocardial infarctions, airway swelling, and increased deaths. What is even more alarming is that these events are occurring in relatively young people. One of the the theories being put forth is that this is being caused… Read More
Abstract OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of Medicaid coverage on dental care outcomes, a major health concern for low-income populations. DATA SOURCES: Primary and secondary data on health care use and outcomes for participants in Oregon’s 2008 Medicaid lottery. STUDY DESIGN: We used the lottery’s random selection to gauge the causal effects of Medicaid on… Read More
A January 2018 report presents a conclusion that not all rural communities need critical-access hospitals. Rural/Critical Access hospitals can maintain up to 25 inpatient beds, but researchers with the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Center for Outcomes Research and Education found only three to five of those beds were occupied on average in the seven states… Read More
This September 2017 article by Hammett et al in Arthritis Care and Research found that although hip and knee replacement surgery decreased pain in did not change physical activity at 6 months after surgery The study found physical activity among patients undergoing total knee or hip arthroplasty was not increased 6 months after the surgery despite… Read More
LA County Mental Health Resources are an important part of the solution to help prevent suicides in Southern California. Is this a model system that is effective and also sustainable? Is this a poison control model that might work in other parts of the country? Is this like a trauma center referral solution? This a… Read More
Clinicians spend 6 out of 11 hours a day working with EMRs. And yet, a majority say they could be using the technology better and need more training. Tom Tonkin, Ph.D. Principal, Change Management and Transformation Thought Leadership & Advisory Services Cornerstone OnDemand Source: Event Registration… Read More
