When applying local cryotherapy, doctors use liquid nitrogen to freeze skin or organ tissue that needs to be removed. Whole-body cryotherapy is a different animal altogether. At a cryotherapy center, you'll plunk down $40 or $50, strip to your undergarments, and walk into a "cryosauna" ...
In a normal functioning heart, the pumping action is synchronized by the pacemaker region of the heart, or sinoatrial node, which is located in the right atrium. This is a natural pacemaker that has the ability to create electrical energy. The electrical impulse is created by the diffusion of...
All pacemakers and defibrillators contain magnetically controlled switches that doctors can deactivate during surgery, MRI scans and medical emergencies. That's why magnetic inference has long been a risk withheart devices. While the risk of occurrence may be low, the consequences could be serious. ...
As someone whose “favorite thing to do” is care for her loved ones, it was difficult to accept that at only 50, she needed some serious care herself. Iris’s family, friends and doctors sprang into action to aid her through the process of receiving a pacemaker and navigating her ...
Doctors have their hands full and their work cut out for them. Many times, a skilled doctor is all that stands between a patient and the Grim Reaper. As such, ...
A standardised clerking pro forma helps to guide junior doctors through the assessment of a patient with a hip fracture, prompting them to record necessary information, to complete a basic examination that should include an assessment of cognition and to ensure appropriate initial management. The AAG...
As patients we can do considerable research into a certain symptom or disease; however, doctors are extensively trained in specialized areas and we come to rely on them and their medical opinion. So this brings me to the question 'what does it take to become a doctor?' Becoming a doct...
They take him to ICU lab and fit a temp pacemaker. Cardiologist comes and prescribes medicine. They tell us in asking Dad to do more of the breathing, and less from the machine, his heart couldn’t cope. They tell us it’s multi organ failure and ...
Pacemaker implantation:Implanting a small electronic device in the chest. Schedule a Fluoroscopy at Envision Imaging Fluoroscopy Risks There are some minor risks associated with fluoroscopy. Because it uses x-ray technology, you have some radiation exposure. The amount you absorb varies depending on th...
Previous new jobs had always begun in August, but for some reason the psychiatry training scheme started in October. This left me with two months to kill. I decided not to do locum work but instead ‘sign on’ and attempt some creative writing at the state’s expense. The break kicked ...