Ebola Healthcare Workers Need to Double Glove
Although we are not participating in the care of those stricken with Ebola, we are watching with alarm multiple news stories showing healthcare workers wearing only one pair of usually ill-fitting non-sterile gloves touching infected patients.
This should never be done when trying to protect from exposure to bodily fluids. Numerous published studies have shown that medical gloves even without a noticeable break or tear have about an 8% rate of loss of integrity, thus providing a route for fluids to reach the wearer’s skin.
In fact, news video of Dr. Brantly show him wearing only a single pair of gloves. He has stated...
Source: Inside Surgery - August 2, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease Ebola healthcare workers prevention protection Source Type: blogs
Can Gingko and Turmeric Help Stop Ebola?
Summary
There is no known pharmaceutical currently available that specifically treats Ebola disease.
One treatment modality that should be considered is the use of herbal medicines, which have both centuries old anecdotal success as well as recent modern biochemical and formal research rationales for their use.
Five areas of action that could be addressed by the herbal medicines as it relates to Ebola would be:
VP24/immune system evasion
GP protein/replicatio;
herbal strategies effective against similar hemorrhagic disease
beneficial modulation of patient immune and inflammatory response systems
prophylactic use for heal...
Source: Inside Surgery - August 1, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease ayurvedic baicalen cathepsin b dengue Ebola gingko herb Quercetin resveratrol rosemary sage st johns work turmeric Source Type: blogs
Can Rife Therapy Help Stop Ebola Disease?
Ebola disease. As the world watches with increasing horror the slow but sure spread of this killer, health authorities are struggling with how best to treat the afflicted while maintaining strict isolation and quarantine.
Distressingly, many healthcare workers taking care of ill Ebola disease patients have themselves been infected and are in mortal danger, including Americans Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, aid workers for the charity Samaritan’s Purse.
The Ebola disease is highly infectious, meaning once a patient comes in contact with the virus, a severe illness almost always develops. Patient commonly develo...
Source: Inside Surgery - August 1, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease cure Ebola kent brantly nancy writebol PERL Rife samaritans purse treatment vaccine Source Type: blogs
Nancy Writebol 2nd American Infected With Ebola
Nancy Writebol, a healthworker with the Chrisitan missionary Samaritan’s Purse has become the 2nd American infected with Ebola.
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Source: Inside Surgery - July 27, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease American Ebola infected Nancy Writebol Samaritans Purse Source Type: blogs
Kent Brantly, MD, First US Physician with Ebola
Kent Brantly, MD, has contracted the Ebola virus while working in a Christian medical mission in West Africa.
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Source: Inside Surgery - July 27, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease American doctor Ebola Kent Brantly medical mission west africa Source Type: blogs
Luray – #1
I did only the caverns. I drove down Interstate 81 and turned off the highway for the 15 mile drive to Luray. The signs are clearly marked and the entrance to the caverns is covered by a rather ugly spanish style pavilion. It was a Sunday and the parking lot was crowded – lots of Japanese tour buses.
The admission fee is $19 for adults. You assemble in the waiting area and they let groups in every 5 minutes or so. There are no guided tours really. You walk along the pathways and every little bit there is a “guide” but they don’t really give a spiel.
The walking tour takes about an hour and the verti...
Source: Inside Surgery - July 13, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: General Source Type: blogs
Neurologist Jonathon L. Fellus Has Sex With Brain-injured Patient
New Jersey medical authorities have revoked the license of neurologist Jonathon L. Fellus after he was found to have engaged in a sexual relationship with a female patient of his that was suffering from a traumatic brain injury.
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Source: Inside Surgery - June 15, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Medical News Wire Neurology Source Type: blogs
Valerie Arkoosh, MD – Candidate for Congress (Part 3 of 3)
Valerie Arkoosh, MD, is a former Chair of Anesthesiology, a health policy expert, and a candidate for Congress running in the Democratic primary in the 13th Pennsylvania district. We recently had time to speak to Dr. Arkoosh about her career as a physician and what she hopes to accomplish if elected to Congress.
Dr. Valerie Arkoosh
What are the most important skills you learned as a Chair that will help you if you are elected to Congress?
As an anesthesiologist you learn very early how to always appear calm!
But, really, I think the skills of bringing people together who often have very different viewpoints about what need...
Source: Inside Surgery - May 10, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Medical News Wire anesthesiologist candidate congress Pennsylvania Valerie Arkoosh Source Type: blogs
Boston ER Physician Loses Malpractice Suit Over Rare Condition
A Boston physician has been successfully sued in a malpractice case after missing a rare diagnosis for an untreatable condition in the emergency room. The judgement against Dr.Liang was for $4.8 million after he failed to miss a case of viral myocarditis in a 23 year old man.
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Source: Inside Surgery - May 4, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Cardiology Infectious Disease Medical News Wire Source Type: blogs
Legionella Found at UPMC Presbyterian
Officials at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian Hospital have disclosed that Legionella bacteria in the hospitals ice machines have killed one patient and sickened two others.
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Source: Inside Surgery - May 3, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease Medical News Wire UPMC University of Pittsburgh Presbyterian Presby Source Type: blogs
Valerie Arkoosh, MD – Candidate for Congress (Part 2 of 3)
Dr. Val Arkoosh is an Anesthesiologist by training and a current candidate for Congress in the Pennsylvania 13th Congressional District. We recently had the chance to speak to Dr. Val to get her thoughts on being a doctor and being a candidate.
Why did you decide to leave full time clinical practice at Jefferson and go to into administration?
The position I left Jefferson to take was a pretty exciting one.
You might remember that Allegheny opened this hospital for women. It was PCOM’s old hospital on City Ave.
And they opened it up and reconfigured I to be a hospital for women. So they moved all the OB GYN, gyn onc ,brea...
Source: Inside Surgery - April 27, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Interviews 13th candidate congress Hahnemann Pennsylvania Tenet Source Type: blogs
Valerie Arkoosh, MD – Candidate for Congress (Part 1 of 3)
Valerie Arkoosh, MD, is an Anesthesiologist, past President of the National Physicians Alliance, and a candidate for Congress running in Pennsylvania’s 13th Congressional district, located in Northeast Philadelphia and Montgomery County. We recently spoke to Dr. Arkoosh about her roles as a physician and health policy expert.
Where were you born and raised?
I was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska.
Where did you go to college and what was your major?
Northwestern University and I got a BA in Economics.
Why did you choose Economics and not a more traditional pre-med major?
I knew I wanted to go to medical school but I al...
Source: Inside Surgery - April 21, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Interviews Anesthesiology candidate congress National Physicians Alliance Northwestern Source Type: blogs
UK Scientists Close To Implanting Lab Grown Nose
UK Scientists are close to implanting lab grown nose, according to lead researcher Alexander Seifalian of University College London. The lab has also grown artificial tracheas and blood vessels from stem cells and is working on mass-producing ears, which are considered technically more difficult to produce.
Drs. Michelle Griffin and Suchitra Sumitran-Holersson of the University of Gothenburg comment.
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Source: Inside Surgery - April 9, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Plastic Surgery Alexander Seifalian Michelle Griffin Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson University College London University Gothenburg Source Type: blogs
Morcellation of Fibroids To Be Eliminated by Boston Hospitals
Morcellation of fibroids is commonly done during laparoscopic hysterectomy to aid in removal of a large amount of tissue through a small surgical port in the abdomen.
Unfortunately, this procedure has recently been implicated in the development of widespread intra-abdominal cancer in two women recently in Boston. In response, Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston are banning the procedure in fibroid removal surgeries.
Dr. Amy Reed is one patient who is now battling stage IV cancer after the procedure spread leiomyosarcoma cells contained within a fibroid throughout her abdomen.
The...
Source: Inside Surgery - March 29, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Editor Tags: Cancer ObGyn Surgery Oncology Amy Reed Brighams and Womens fibroids laparoscopic hysterectomy leiomyosarcoma MGH morcellation Source Type: blogs
Ebola Case Possible in Canada
Ebola case is possible in Canada, according to Saskatchewan health officials. A man who had recently traveled to Liberia is critically ill and in intensive care with preliminary test results suspected to be available in the next 24 hours.
Somewhat inexplicably, health official Denise Werker said the risk of Ebola spreading to another person is low.
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Source: Inside Surgery - March 25, 2014 Category: Surgeons Authors: Editor Tags: Infectious Disease Canada Denise Werker Ebola Liberia Saskatchewan Source Type: blogs
