Thursday, March 4, 2010
The 2010 Annual Perioperative Medicine Summit Starts Today
The annual Perioperative Medicine Summit 2010 starts on March 4 in Miami:
http://periopmedicine.org and @PeriopSummit
I maintain their website for the University of Miami and Cleveland Clinic, and help with the Twitter account, hosting of PDF handouts, videos, etc.
Expect multiple free handouts posted on the front page of the summit website during March 4-6, 2010 and clinical pearls and discussions on Twitter: http://periopmedicine.org and @PeriopSummit
http://periopmedicine.org and @PeriopSummit
I maintain their website for the University of Miami and Cleveland Clinic, and help with the Twitter account, hosting of PDF handouts, videos, etc.
Dr. Jaffer, Chief of Division of Hospital Medicine and Summit Director will text his own tweets at http://twitter.com/PeriopSummit
Program and Abstracts of the 5th Annual Perioperative Medicine Summit 2010
Summit Brochure
Summary
Summary
Dr. Amir K. Jaffer and Dr. Franklin Michota, the founding Summit Directors, in collaboration with Dr. David Hepner, will direct the 5th Annual Perioperative Medicine Summit in Miami, Florida.
The course is co-sponsored by the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and the Cleveland Clinic in collaboration with the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement (SPAQI).
The goal of the Summit is to enable clinicians who are actively engaged in perioperative medical care to incorporate the latest findings from clinical research into their practices so that they can improve the quality and safety of their medical care.
Map of the Meeting Location
View Larger Map
Map of Eden Roc Resort
The course is co-sponsored by the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and the Cleveland Clinic in collaboration with the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement (SPAQI).
The goal of the Summit is to enable clinicians who are actively engaged in perioperative medical care to incorporate the latest findings from clinical research into their practices so that they can improve the quality and safety of their medical care.
Map of the Meeting Location
View Larger Map
Map of Eden Roc Resort
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Green tea may be a cancer fighter - Cleveland Clinic video
A new study finds the tea shows promise as a possible oral cancer fighter.
Green Tea Doesn’t Prevent Breast Cancer, Study Finds http://goo.gl/j5xZ
Related:
Coffee vs. Tea - Infographic of Health Benefits and Risks http://goo.gl/StIsr
Green Tea Decreases Total and LDL Cholesterol by 5 mg/dL http://goo.gl/AwVDr and http://goo.gl/Ku55O
Green Tea Decreases Total and LDL Cholesterol by 5 mg/dL http://goo.gl/AwVDr and http://goo.gl/Ku55O
Cigarette smokers have lower IQs than non-smokers, and the more a person smokes, the lower their IQ
From Reuters:Young men who smoked a pack of cigarettes a day or more had IQ scores 7.5 points lower than non-smokers in a study of over 20,000 Israeli military recruits.
"Adolescents with poorer IQ scores might be targeted for programs designed to prevent smoking," concluded the researchers in the journal Addiction.
The average IQ for non-smokers was 101, while it was 94 for men who had started smoking before entering the military. IQ steadily dropped as the number of cigarettes smoked increased, from 98 for people who smoked one to five cigarettes daily to 90 for those who smoked more than a pack a day. IQ scores from 84 to 116 are considered to indicate average intelligence.
The study may suggest that lower IQ individuals are more likely to choose to smoke, rather than that smoking makes people less intelligent.
Dr Mike Cadogan - By definition non-smokers smarter than smokers...
Ben Ferguson - That's a weird conclusion to come to, in my opinion. They associated essentially pack-years with intelligence, which would seem to indicate a dosage effect, but then the suggestions were that they had lower IQs to begin with? It's a bit of a non sequitur. That there's a dosage effect would suggest that most of them had equal IQs before starting smoking; to conclude that they started smoking as a result of having lower intelligence to begin with has nothing to do with their aims and even undermines their findings.
Lakshman Swamy - Smoking is an addiction, and the smoking population is marginalized as it is. Obviously smoking is terrible for you... but let us not forget that smokers need healthcare and health advice more than most. I worry that this will further a "judging" attitude on the part of physicians.
Arin Basu - There is a problem in reducing entities like intelligence to single numbers like IQ scores (this is an offhand comment, I have not read /this/ particular article), but talking of programme targetting on the basis of studies that go to suggest "if you have low IQ then you smoke", in other words, implicitly accepting low IQ as /cause/ of smoking is dangerous. Well spotted though.
Image source: Wikipedia, Tomasz Sienicki, Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 License.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Using Wikipedia and Google for medical information
Some interesting abstracts from PubMed:"Google is an efficient web resource for identifying specific medical information." Google was more efficient than all other resources for identifying medical information (P less than 0.0001) http://bit.ly/6FXATW
Google Scholar versus PubMed in locating primary literature to answer drug-related questions: no major differences http://bit.ly/8OygYt
Wikipedia is not authoritative and should only be a "supplemental source" of drug information http://bit.ly/7qzZ7k
Does Wikipedia provide evidence-based health care information? http://bit.ly/4WVLHt - No. Who is surprised?
Personality characteristics of Wikipedia members: Introverted women more likely to be members than extroverted women http://bit.ly/8YfrXb
Mobile Websites from Pubmed: Search Abstracts and Find Disease Associations http://bit.ly/7ucyn5 - Works on Kindle too. The mobile MedlinePlus (for consumers) is at m.medlineplus.gov http://bit.ly/6jjkt3
Wikipedia: A Key Tool for Global Public Health Promotion (review article)
Image source: Doctors Using Google by Philipp Lenssen, used with permission.
Health News of the Day
A school based compulsory physical activity improved fitness and reduced adiposity in children. BMJ, Feb 2010.Dr. Wes: Cardiology is easy until it isn't
No doubt Mr. Cheney has had impecable cardiovacular care. But despite that care, after three bypasses, a history of atrial fibrillation, deep venous thrombosis, a cardiomyopathy that requires a defibrillator or two, and scores of medications to stabilize the angina - you've suddenly got a tough case: http://drwes.blogspot.com/2010/02/dick-vs-bill.html
PeRSSonalized Geriatrics from Webicina.com
http://www.webicina.com/perssonalized/?page=1&cat=37
PeRSSonalized Medicine is a free, easy-to-use aggregator of quality medical information that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news and articles about a medical specialty or a medical condition in one personalized place.
Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Health News of the Day
Hypertension is a "neglected disease" "Although hypertension is relatively easy to prevent, simple to diagnose, and relatively inexpensive to treat, it remains the second leading cause of death among Americans," said David Fleming, who led the study committee that wrote the report for the US Institute of Medicine. Hypertension is the most common primary diagnosis in the United States, affecting about 73 million adults (one in three).
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/340/feb22_2/c1074
Can't Remember Faces? Blame Your Genes
The ability to remember a face is inherited, according to a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers also found that people who are good at remembering faces are not necessarily good at other memory tasks. Face recognition ability comes from a dedicated circuit, or set of circuits, in the brain.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123975339&ft=1&f=1007
Erythropoiesis stimulating drugs caused tumours to grow faster and led to earlier deaths in some cancer patients, prompting the FDA to restrict their use.
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/340/feb22_2/c1050
Medical implications of the Taser: Serious harm is rare, but incident reporting needs to be improved
Amnesty International has identified more than 300 deaths associated with Taser use in the United States. However, association is not causation, and other factors complicate the interpretation of fatal outcomes. The dominant conducted energy device used in police forces worldwide is the Taser X26. This device generates five second trains of electrical pulses that are delivered to the body either by two propelled barbs (which embed in clothing or skin and remain connected to the handset by conductive wire) or by direct contact of the handset’s electrodes (drive-stun mode).
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/340/feb22_1/c853
Rational Or Emotional? After you've lost weight, you have an increase in the emotional response to food
One of the hormones that play a role in controlling appetite in the body is called leptin. After significant weight loss, leptin levels drop. This seems to signal to the brain a need to seek more food.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123894109&ft=1&f=1007
Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.
Subscribe and Connect by clicking on the buttons below:
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)