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Understanding Heat Stroke: Symptoms and Essential Solutions

Doctor On Demand

Familiarizing yourself with heat stroke symptoms and exploring various solutions, including the option of consulting an online doctor , can prove pivotal in averting severe consequences. This heightened temperature can precipitate complications affecting vital organs like the brain and heart. Urgent care for every day life.

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More than the rule of 2s: All about Meckel Diverticulum

PEMBlog

Other complications include obstruction due to intussusception or volvulus, leading to bowel ischemia and shock. This nuclear medicine scan utilizes a radioactive tracer that is taken up by the gastric mucosa in Meckel’s diverticulum, thereby helping to identify its presence. The bleeding is usually painless. Clin Radiol.

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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

GeriPal

Eric: And swallowing is complicated, right? So, the consult will come in and then we’ll do what we call a clinical bedside evaluation, where we’ll go and see the patient at the bedside. Eric: I also wonder, is it just the utilization review standpoint? Eric: Because you need saliva to swallow, right? Nicole: Yes.

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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

GeriPal

And palliative care was as a program was just growing at Penn moving from just consult hospice to actually having a team when I was training. I have never myself called a palliative care consult as a trainee because we didn’t have one. And I practiced both on the palliative care consult team and in the ICU.

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Under Pressure: Hypertensive Emergencies in the Pediatric Emergency Department

PEMBlog

Imaging and other diagnostic studies can consist of chest x-ray, EKG, renal ultrasound with doppler, voiding cystourethrography, renal arteriography, echocardiogram, and MRI/MRA/CT of the brain/neck if neurologic complications are involved (Kamat 2024; Patel 2012).

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

It did not change the frequency of palliative care consultation, the timing of such, ICU mortality, or six-month mortality. Kate: I think the main one for me being asked on the fly is that one of the nudged specialist palliative care consultation, which we know has limitations. I’m just stunned even writing that!

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Episode 275: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 19 – Reframing the Opioid Epidemic: Anti-Racist Praxis, Racial Health Inequities, and Harm Reduction

The Clinical Problem Solvers

One example that is presented involves the complicated relationship between the United States and Chinese immigrants and farmworkers in California. Dr. Jordan then questions the utility and continued operation of methadone clinics, especially as the United States largely moves on from the COVID-19 pandemic.